WaPo: Zero Stories on Pro-School Voucher Demonstration, Three for Obama Speech

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By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
September 9, 2009 - 15:41 ET
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Yesterday I noted that the Washington Post covered a September 8 anti-Obama, pro-school voucher protest in its D.C. Wire blog. Demonstrators participating in the protest complained about how the president and congressional Democrats have scuttled the voucher program and in doing so dashed the hopes of 216 kids who were scheduled to be granted vouchers for private schools this school year.

Yet the protest, led by former city councilman Kevin Chavous (D) and featuring former mayor and current Councilman Marion Barry (D), received no coverage in the September 9 Washington Post, despite the fact that the paper has supported the voucher program in previous editorials.  

Of course, the Post did find space for not one but three articles dealing with President Obama's September 8 address to the nation's schoolchildren:


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→ Well, DUH!!

September 9, 2009 - 15:55 ET by Cool Arrow

The Democrat government fears any attempt at growing educated black children.

You'll note the Government had no legal standing in determining Barack Obama's educational upbringing.

Why the Dems don't come clean and admit that a bloated beaureaucratic public school system is far more important to them than the advancement of colored people(see note 1), should be painfully plain given the voting patterns of teachers. 

  1. (license taken here, to add indictment of NAACP)

Van Jones is a Quitter - FS

Only two

September 9, 2009 - 16:10 ET by Franksam

Barack cares only about two black children, and they are named Malia and Sasha.

Here's an idea...why not

September 9, 2009 - 16:15 ET by RR GOP

Here's an idea...why not have the lousy schools examine and do the things that the good schools are doing?  Of course, that would mean barring the delinquents, but that's part of the private school success...too much trouble and they're gone.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

I would love it

September 9, 2009 - 16:20 ET by katainkent

if Wa State would approve school vouchers.  Then my children would be in school right now instead of waiting for the NEA and the district to hash out yet another strike.

But there is no way in the world. 

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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.  ~Thomas Jefferson

→ kata

September 9, 2009 - 16:24 ET by Cool Arrow

Don't think for a moment that your children are foremost on the minds of the NEA.

Van Jones is a Quitter - FS

oh believe me CA

September 9, 2009 - 16:27 ET by katainkent

I don't.  My children were supposed to start school Aug 31st. 

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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.  ~Thomas Jefferson

kata we have a couple

September 9, 2009 - 18:35 ET by Radical1979

kata we have a couple districts here also without contracts.  Teachers aren't getting any sympathy this year.  Here in PA even the small districts pay teachers with masters degrees up to $80,000. 

Of course this isn't

September 9, 2009 - 18:11 ET by G. May

Of course this isn't news. 

Petitions with 150 signatures out in Wyoming about a building named after the last VP are what's hot.

Public Schools

September 9, 2009 - 18:18 ET by VengeanceIsMine

Vouchers are my favorite part of the education debate. Recently the libs have been yappin on and on about choice & competition in health care.  They claim they want to keep the insurance companies "honest".  Where is that concern for competition in education?  The government already has their monopoly with public schools.  They get your money by the point of a gun.  These dimocrats cannot not succeed.  Their policies will lead to ruin.  I don't understand how you can't see it any other way.  I have tried to think like a liberal, but I can't.  I would have to have a lobotomy before I could go back to thinking like a lib.

"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt." Daniel Hannan

Public Schools

September 9, 2009 - 18:22 ET by VengeanceIsMine

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Public Schools

September 9, 2009 - 18:23 ET by VengeanceIsMine

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