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...anyway, the president's plan hasn't got a chance of becoming reality. Congress has said repeatedly that it will never pass a voucher plan, and even with perhaps 120 new members, the chances of passage remain slim. American schoolchildren, their schools worsening by the month, are desperately in need of action...
Even more frightening than this shallow proposal is the cynical, elitist mentality behind it. Most Americans, especially parents and schoolchildren, favor some kind of public school system, but our president seems to have given up on the idea almost entirely...
Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, with their emphasis on ritual, are well suited to a world in which few people bother to read. Theology is a dying art. Schoolchildren are ignorant of the Bible and hence bereft of their spiritual heritage. The postliterate era has been especially difficult for Protestantism, which depended so heavily upon rationalism and reading. Although old-style Protestants are shrinking in numbers, they retain outsize influence because so many of them remain book readers and are thus inevitably leaders of the economic ruling class on all continents...
...didn't matter that schoolchildren once hid under their desks in drills to prepare for nuclear war," Bush said. "I saw the chance to rid our children's dreams of the nuclear nightmare, and I did," Bush said...
Funny, I never seemed to mind these technical difficulties. (And just how does sugar eat into baseball cards, anyway?) It was a small price to pay for a defining scent, an aroma that conferred respectability and did for decades of schoolchildren what Chanel No. 5 did for Marilyn Monroe...