Posted on 04/14/2018 12:05:32 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine
Here is the Educational solution for Maine.
Instead of handing $13,240 a student to the State Department of Education and School Districts, and then trusting them to manage it (which they obviously aren’t doing well), put that money into an educational savings account controlled by the family that could only be spent on education
Then let all schools, public and private, compete for the best teachers and compete to earn clients (students) by the quality of their product.
If parents want their children to be taught social justice, climate change and transgenderism, they can send their kids to those schools. Parents that prefer quality reading, writing, arithmetic, real science and history, can send their kids to schools that emphasize those classes.
The quality of education will be fixed overnight, and parental control will be returned.
Public schools should excel as they already have the facilities, buses and personnel. The only way they don’t win is if they don’t provide a product the parents want at a price that is competitive.
Teachers will immediately have choices. When a known great teacher is on the free market, he/she might demand $100,000 in the first year. Great teachers will be paid great, good teachers will have a financial incentive to become great and average teachers will be motivated to find other employment. Students that don’t ride the bus, play sports or if they decide to bring their lunch from home, then they will save money.
Any money left in their education account can be rolled over. If a student graduates high school with money left in his/her ESA, they can use it for college or trade school, reducing needs for student loans.
The teachers win. The parents win. The students win. Colleges win. The only ones that lose will be the unions who are constantly stirring seeds of dissatisfaction to justify their existence, educational bureaucrats that will no longer have a reason for existence (Can’t each school district choose its own curriculum and manage its own affairs?) and politicians that won’t be able to use the teachers as a tools for their next big tax increase or pet project to raise revenue – for the teachers.
Sounds like a good plan, wonder why it hasn;t been tried in the country who believes in CHOICE.
Governor LePage has been at it for 6-8 years. He’s about as conservative as they come. Never heard of him on this subject. Nothing will change. Now if he would have done a Rick Scott regarding the Senate..
You are appealing to people who still have some common sense and a fair amount of grey matter. But these days, both of those are becoming rare, at least amongst the general population. Proof of it is that there are still more than enough people would vote for either Hillary or Obozo in a heartbeat.
The People’s Union of Education Degree Holders will not allow such thoughts.
Go to the corner and sit on the dunce chair.
I have friends in Maine who tell me this will never happen. Maine has become a Nanny-state. People move there from other parts of the country (especially New England) for Welfare, food stamps and Marijuana. Those same folks will vote for any party who promises them free stuff. They couldn't care less about Education.
Perfect idea, covers it all. Concisely said.
I wish the Dept of Education could wave a wand.
Probably will happen at state level first, if it happens.
How would today's Liberals/Progressives control the message in an education arrangement which left Bill-of-Rights provisions intact?
The totalitarian Progressive ideology demands group-think, lock-step compliance. Inasmuch as a free people who understand their inherent, Creator-endowed rights will not bow to such demands, then they must be delegitimized, ostracized, and held to be "irredeemable" and "deplorable," per leader Hillary.
Signs are that intelligent youth are rebelling against such demands on their consciences and rights of expression on college campuses across the nation. May that breath of freedom expand!
Surely you jest (Shirley). The libs would call it ‘’rasiss’, homophobic, anti-abortion,anti-union and harmful to lil chilluns’ and every living thing and use other catch phrases they have invented. Their heads would explode. Good idea! Make it so.BTW that is how our education system was before the turn of the 20th century.
I often wonder about choice.
The liberals tell us to be pro-choice on the abortion issue.
But on just about any other issue, the liberal view of the issue is to oppose people having choices of how to live our lives. Just an observation. On most issues, the liberals want to impose their view of the rest of us.
We certainly see it on this issue. Liberals are against school choice. Why is this, if having choices is supposed to be a liberal value?
“BTW that is how our education system was before the turn of the 20th century.”
There were many public schools around prior to the 20th century.
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If we were to have the ratification of the Constitution with today’s idiots, it would never be ratified. I think half of this country is lost for good and clinically insane with their lust for everything government and no understanding of liberty. Choice to a liberal only means to murder a baby or not.
I’m all for having ‘education’ savings accounts (IMO, they should be like 401K...pre-tax).
Kill all property taxes and have at it.
It’s the $ from OTHER taxpayers We should be up-in-arms against. Just another welfare scheme of vote buying.
At worst, they should be like college loans were, before the govt take-over: loan and rack up the debt and start to pay-off once the education was done.
Consider that Maine’s two senators are Susan Collins and an “independent”(democrat)
The current amounts vary by student despite Brown vs. Board of Education.
A normal grade school student might cost $8,000/year.
A severely disabled student might cost $50,000/year for private special ed.
Most schools are a century behind the times.
More than money is involved.
Education is a $pecial interest of mine, so I won’t elaborate.
Imagine an educational exchange.
Imagine Silver, Gold and Platinum plans.
Unfortunately, more than just paying bills is involved when it comes to education.
The private sector simply isn’t able to expand as fast as would be desired since government is handing out “free” child-minding.
Most of the teachers are already in classrooms.
Those that aren’t are often earning real estate commissions.
A good education also requires hard work by the students.
“If parents want their children to be taught social justice, climate change and transgenderism, they can send their kids to those schools.”
They already are, all too often.
My neighbors are from Maine. I guess winters are still bad there since they now show up every winter season here in Florida.
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