Santorum: Watch and Learn

As the radical right continues its war on our children's education by wielding charter schools and vouchers to bleed public money from public schools, a potentially revealing--if hypothetical--situation has just become a little more likely. With the expiration of John Bolton's recess appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, enraged members of the moral minority like Kathryn Jean Lopez are now calling for his replacement by outgoing Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. So here's the big question: Would an Ambassador Santorum, with a diplomatic posting in Manhattan, continue to claim that a Pennsylvania "Cyber Charter School" is best for his children? Remember that the appeal of the "Cyber Charter School" was that he could home-school his children in Leesburg, Va., while billing his impoverished Pennsylvania school district, where he claimed he lived, $100,000 for an alleged online component of their schooling.

One suspects that the Ambassadorial perks and the siren call of NYC private schools--plus the reduced need for focus-group driven schooling methods--might lead to a sudden lost of interest in "alternative" education.

--Dr. Frank Galton, D.Phil, Resident Scholar