Carlos Valdez, a co-sponsor of a school choice bill in Florida, received hundreds of angry letters from children after his article, highly critical of the Dade County School Board, appeared in the Miami Herald. Despite the high probability that the students were coached by their teachers and didn't fully understand what they were writing, the following passages exemplify the failure of Miami's public schools:

"You will regrate stopping all this stuff like summer school while I don't really care if you stop summer school because should not have to go to school in are summer. It is are time but we need are education."

"I think the budget is getting worse so put down the big company with higher money. little company lower value and keep the school for cutting teacher out their job."

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