Posted on 05/29/2016 2:14:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Urban school districts from Los Angeles to Philadelphia are experiencing declining enrollment in traditional public schools as more parents enroll their children in charters, depleting millions in per-pupil funding from district budgets.
In states experiencing population growth, such as Arizona, charter schools help relieve overcrowding. But for districts that are struggling financially, the student flight is costly. …
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Many public schools are too dangerous for children. It is a Lord of the Flies existence where only the strongest survive, and that includes teachers. Urban public schools are places were child abuse is tolerated and they are a blight on society. By the way, little education takes place, which drags down our nation.
Get your children OUT of government schools!
No coincidence that the name “Lord of the Flies” is a translation of the Hebrew name “Ba’al-zebub”, of course. The Marxists knew what they were doing when they put public schools as the tenth plank of communism.
That is the question, isn’t it ? Just like questioning why there is so much opposition to school vouchers, even when proposed at much less per pupil than the public schools are spending.
There are many private schools that cost less than 2/3rds what the public schools spend. Logically, vouchers for that amount would leave MORE money per pupil remaining in the public school system.
I think it would be great for Trump to hinge federal funds for schools on whether or not vouchers were available for school choice, even including vouchers for home schooling. How many more parents would choose home schooling if the school district paid them $8,000/yr per child ?
Public schools should be the educator or last resort. Those kids that are expelled from private schools for discipline problems and whose parents are unqualified to home school.
I don’t think there should be federal funds for schools at all. That means nothing but federal control, which is unconstitutional.
Much of school funding is for pensions of retired teachers and admin.
When you hear of cities where costs are 20K per child, and they have no books or heat, it is because their monies are eaten up with retirement bennies.
For all the “charter” schools and other supposedly better high schools, the colleges just aren’t seeing more capable students.
So you want public schools to continue churning out under educated but fully indoctrinated liberals and parents forced to pay taxes with no school choice ?
The local governments have been taken over by liberals and without federal pressure will never allow school choice that includes vouchers for private and homeschooling. We should use the federal pressure while it exists to establish the right of school choice, and then taper off federal funds.
I understand. But removing students from the system is the only way to reduce the CURRENT staffing for administration and facilities and teachers before they add to the future problems of pensions and golden parachutes. The sooner they go, the fewer years they will have accrued and the lower their pension benefit will be.
No, I want all education to be either private pay or private charity.
I’ve read enough whining from the teacher’s union about how desperately they need just a little more money to help the children that I want to vomit when reflecting on it. Raise the property tax another couple pennies and they won’t even take a day off. It’s not enough, it’s only election-year posturing, the sky should be the limit for our children! Children, children, children, children!
Their widely broadcast diatribes cause all public school teachers, good bad or indifferent, to take on the likeness of grasping, greedy, subhuman parasites, to my eyes and to many others. Third wave feminism performs a similar service for young western women.
As a parent who homeschooled four children, I agree.
The faster that the Federal Dept. of Education is shut down, the better.
And not just using words like Bennett, but actually going in and cutting jobs, and emptying buildings.
Thanks Olog-hai. In California, Trump needs to court the Asian vote by criticizing the Demwit attempts to illegally circumvent Prop 209.
Unfortunately, the teachers gave me poor Marx in Public school...
Well, according to a report , private schools share of total enrollment have decreased over the past 15 years (the report was in 2013) from about 12% to 10%. In 1995, for example, 88.3% of preK-12 students were enrolled in public school but have increased to 90% in 2009. It is projected to increase
to 90.9% by 2021. This increase is likely due to minority students making up a larger share of preK-12 students.
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