Douglas County School District Superintendent Liz Fagen, front right, answers questions during a press conference about the Colorado Supreme Court ruling the Douglas County School District’s controversial school voucher program unconstitutional in a split ruling on June 29, at the Colorado Supreme Court. The court fruled that a school voucher program in suburban Denver violates the state constitution because it provides funding for students to attend religious schools. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)
Re: “Dougco and the virtue of vouchers,” Aug. 9 Mike Rosen column.
Mike Rosen’s column was both instructive and illuminating, shining a glaring light on the indefensible hypocrisy of the socialist, progressive liberals who oppose vouchers. Aren’t these people the same ones who trumpet themselves as champions of the common man? Apparently, their own self-serving interests of controlling educational content and protecting teacher unions are more important than ensuring a quality education for all Dougco students. How ironic that their opposition to vouchers perpetuates the division of socio-economic classes: Those who are well-off can afford educational choice; those who are economically and/or socially challenged cannot.
David Oyler, New Castle
This letter was published in the Aug. 16 edition.Poor Mike Rosen is in a tizzy over public schools, and argues that vouchers for private education are conservatives’ best chance to avoid the supposed “socialist and liberal values” he feels are taught by teachers he has never respected.
School vouchers are the grand larceny of our time, where public coffers are raided so that private schools can be funded to teach conservative ideologies, religion being manifest among them. They are nothing less than a form of welfare, with the handing out of public taxpayer dollars for private use. So conservatives like Rosen must believe that welfare checks are OK, as long as they are the ones receiving them. Is Rosen being hypocritical? Yes. Are vouchers bad for public schools? Yes. And public schools still manage to turn out conservatives. I’ll bet Rosen was one of them.
Susan Altenhofen, Fort Collins
This letter was published in the Aug. 16 edition.
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