Hey Aunty, long time, no-see. Save me some shrimp.

OK, so I have to jump in on the private school voucher issue.

I also pay a pretty high tax load, but I do have three kids currently in private school. My kid's school costs about $5,500/year apiece. Obviously, that's a big chunk of change for most people I know, but we pay it willingly because of the quality of education my kids get.

Am I against vouchers? Heck no! The current public system turns out kids that test well below what our little under-funded private school does, yet they spend WAY more per kid. I'm fortunate, because I got a good education and make a good living so I can afford to pay taxes into the public school system I'll never use and still put my kids thru private school. But I think it would be ABSOLUTELY GREAT if a single mother who could never afford it got the chance to place her kid in a better school - especially if the better school was actually LESS COSTLY than the current beaurocratically bloated public school system. I'm trying to figure out how that can be a bad thing.... Her kid goes to the school of choice and it costs the tax payers less. Seems like a win-win situation to me.

Hey, I guess that makes me PRO-CHOICE after all!!!!

Hope to see you at Seiku.