What?
Sounds good except you forgot one thing - people will be involved. Where will the struggle for money or power fit in to this solutiuon? How will we exclude those who don't meet our criteria? You need to flesh this out a little more.
(Warning, some sarcasm was used in the creation of this response.)
We could call grades 13-20 "Re-Educating and Indoctrination Centers".
i think there should be NO public school for the masses... maybe just for those in dire need--meaning the poorest of the poor... just like public housing... (the way it was meant to be way back in the early days of our country.)
Why would you come to FR to post support for Federal Government growth and socialistic principles?
Yes, we need a bigger government cartel on education, and everybody needs to go to college! </sarc!
Start by eliminating public schools and replacing that system with a 100% voucher system designed to finance no-frills serious academic education only. Plenty of schools will pop up which keep their costs at or below the voucher level. If people want their children to go to schools with big sports facilities and other extras, let them pay for it themselves.
Yeehaw. Let's destroy the finest university systems in the world.
Our children????
You gave birth to my child?
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought that one of the reasons that the US Nat'l Forests were devised was to use the sale of forest resources to finance education.
What?? The government (especially the Feds) need to get OUT of the education business, and it should be left up to individuals to educate their children. It's not that there shouldn't be any schools, but MORE. Once the government monopoly on education is erradicated, then a competitive environment will be created. Schools will NOT be equal under this form of private ownership, however. Schools will never be equal. It is an impossible utopian dream.
We've already got this in Georgia. Every child with a 'B' average gets a free college scholarship
I'd take a slightly different approach. No government involvement in education ever. Not federal, state or local. Not preschool, elementary or university. No federal dollars, loans or any other thing of value. Only when people spend their own hard earned money on schooling and educators have to produce something of value for a customer, will education in this country improve.
As long as "education" is furnished by the government it will be overpriced and shoddy.
It sounds like just the kind of giant government boondoggle that he would love to sink his teeth into!
The truly poor would be eligable for low or zero interest loans from the state government to help pay their education expenses. Think of the way college loans work now (can't get out of them through bankrupcy, and you must start paying once the student is no longer in school).
It would be more painful up front for many families, but once they had paid for their children's education they'd be done. Unlike property taxes which never end.
Excellent idea, comrade.
I think a more immediate concern would be pointless vanities.