GraemeTaylor

One thing is off there, it would not always be the person, their children and then their grandchildren. Usually it would be the person, their parents, and their children.

Mr. Booker: You have been a staunch advocate of school vouchers. This is a concept championed by libertarian economist Milton Friedman, and isn't something I'd expect you to support.

As a child of a 36 year public school teacher and a former public school teacher who now works at a public library, school vouchers are a very scary concept. I hope to be an economist one day and I love the beauty of a free market: the way competition makes everything better for all of us. But the school system is not a competitive market. You cannot improve test scores through allowing competition. When a company innovates and creates something, all a person must do is buy it to make it a success. But if a school innovates and a low achieving student goes there, it's not guaranteed that they will do well. Their attendance doesn't make the "product" successful, unlike with capitalism.

Vouchers don't even solve the full problem: With all the best schools being rushed to first, it becomes a luck of who can get there first. Also, why take away money from public schools and apply it to for private schools? If anything, I see this as a government bailout of private schools.

And lastly, these parents can (Constitutionally, according to the Supreme Court) apply the voucher to religious schools. It's my hope that tax payer dollars will not go to support religion.

Why do you support these reforms?

Thank you,

Graeme

For my high school astronomy class (12th grade) we have to classify 1,000 objects each using your program. If I mess up, is it hurting your data?

Would you say more or less people should become strippers?