Posted on 01/16/2012 4:20:46 PM PST by Duke of Qin
If the dust settles, we can talk about how computers and virtual reality software should enable anyone to attend any college course online with the same quality of education as those who attend in person, also $100mo.
$100 a month per child...firing my editor ;^)
This article and the responses fail to account for the non-neutral political, cultural, and religious content and consequences of education.
Axiom: It is impossible to have a religiously, politically, or culturally neutral education either in content or consequences. **Impossible**!
Government should never have such control over the minds of the future voters of America. Every day children are forced into godless classrooms and forced to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate with the godlessly secular curriculum. How could it possibly be otherwise?
Also...Our nation's socialist system of schooling is the very definition of a socialist-entitlement program. Simply by attending children risk learning to be comfortable with socialism. Gee! If the voting mob and government police force can give them tuition-free schooling, why not use that power to get **lots** of socialist goodies? All it took to produce Franklin D. Roosevelt for four terms was one to three generations of voters attending socialist K-12 schools!
Finally, government schools are **compulsory** for all those children whose parents can not ransom them by paying the jizya of homeschooling and private schooling expenses. And...Since government is running a price-fixed cartel, and setting its price at tuition-free, it creates a hostile environment for the creation of private schooling. Many counties in this nation have NO private schools for this reason.
Government schools condition children to be comfortable with government compulsion, and once in these “schools” all their First Amendment Rights are trashed minute by minute by government functionaries. In many ways, children ( whose only crime was being born) are treated like prisoners.
Personally, I have recently made a decision. Our nation's system of socialist and godless schooling is soooooooo evil, that I will not have a government teacher for a friend. I am DONE! Government teachers are too evil, too stupid, too much of a Useful Idiot, or too loyal to their paycheck rather than their so-called conservative or Christian principles, for me to have them for a friend.
Our nation's socialist and godless schools are such a threat to our nation's continuing freedom, that I fear we can not last even one more generation of future voters attending these pits of godless socialist indoctrination. I believe it is **that** serious!
Next, the textbooks and teacher's guides for every course for every grade should be available in all public libraries. In my county they are not.
Finally, any child who passes a government or private test showing that he has fully mastered a particular subject ( for example: addition facts) should be immediately moved to the next level in that subject.
Any child of any age who passes the government GED or similar private exam should be given an official high school diploma from his local high school, and no child should be given a diploma who hasn't passed it. Imagine the hemorrhaging of students out of the government schools with just that one change. Cost to taxpayers: Nothing!
Finally, all government teachers should be given two months to prepare for the GED, if **they** don't pass it, they should be immediately fired.
Hear Hear Amen Preach On
The Question here is not about who is the ‘Best’ in the world. And the phrase “world” is often misleading and it more often pretains to only a small continent called north America.
If Americans feel proud of their education system, then why are they feeling worrid about Indian education? Its only an acceptance that education is deteriorating in USA. You cannot always say that my fore father had a mansion so I am great. The world is changed and the world order is changing. Go with it rather than complaining. If USA education needs improvement, do it and compete with others rather than preaching that Americans are great!! That closes the room for expansion.
Yesterday America was great and today India or China is becoming great.
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