Gender integrated units have been fraught with social problems, including pregnancy, sexual harassment, adultery, fraternization, jealousies, and infighting - all at the cost of efficiency and readiness. Their presence in a combat situation can also lead to problems due to men's natural tendency to protect women, and to women's greater vulnerability to exploitation should they be captured. Women have proven to meet and exceed the physical and mental standards required by the armed services both in service to country and in combat conditions, as proven in the Persian Gulf War. Women have the right to serve their country in whatever role they can prove capable of doing. If the best person for a job, the most skilled and capable, is a woman, then we should not put a man in that position just because the woman makes some men feel uncomfortable.
School vouchers are a threat to our public school system.
While some schools will certainly be improved by the competition, others, especially those in poor areas, will suffer. If the voucher system included private schools, it would be even worse. Poorer people, who could not afford to pay the portion of tuition that the voucher would not cover, would be abandoned to a second class school system, worsening the rift between the poor and middle class. A school voucher system will improve all public schools by introducing competition to the public school system. It will empower students and their parents and make them feel like they have a stake in their school because they chose it.