{"id":1064,"date":"2007-10-29T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/10\/29\/why-patrick-byrne-is-a-horrible-spokesperson-for-school-vouchers\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T17:41:33","slug":"why-patrick-byrne-is-a-horrible-spokesperson-for-school-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/why-patrick-byrne-is-a-horrible-spokesperson-for-school-vouchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Patrick Byrne is a horrible spokesperson for school vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in favor of school vouchers. It has worked well in Milwaukee. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you any different. Is the system perfect? No. But the public schools here are terrible, and at the very least, the voucher program gives children an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Does the voucher program help everyone? No. Some parents are not involved with their children and don&#8217;t really care, so they don&#8217;t utilize the program. But for the low-income households with parents who care, it has been fantastic.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All of the voucher schools haven&#8217;t done well. That is the risk we take. But these children are being given <strong>a chance<\/strong>. And that&#8217;s how true change will come about. Without the voucher program, the public schools and public teachers have no incentive to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Should vouchers be done in Utah? Yes. Milwaukee has shown that it can work, and low income children deserve a chance.<\/p>\n<p>But Patrick Byrne is the worst kind of spokesperson, and the voucher supporters would do well to distance themselves from him. He has a history of bizarre behavior and ramblings on ludicrous conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t even apologize for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/10\/27\/naacp-wants-patrick-byrne-of-overstockcom-to-apologize\/\">a big blunder he made in talking about minorities who don&#8217;t graduate from high school<\/a>. I understand Byrne&#8217;s comments. He just chose some of the worst possible wording, and for that, he needs to apologize and explain. Instead, he calls people liars and refuses to make things right.<\/p>\n<p>Do the proponents of school vouchers really want this type of person speaking for them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in favor of school vouchers. It has worked well in Milwaukee. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you any different. Is the system perfect? No. But the public schools here are terrible, and at the very least, the voucher program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[869,188,1418],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories","tag-milwaukee-public-schools","tag-patrick-byrne","tag-school-voucher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-ha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}