The real solution to this mess is the school voucher system. It's high time that parents who can't afford to homeschool were able to pull their kids out of the anti-American, pro-socialist cesspools and place the kids in schools that aren't run by the neo-socialist, pro-Islamofascist, anti-Christian jackasses.
I'm with Prime Choice on this one. It's got to be the voucher system to allow parents more choices than the United Socialist School System Republic: USSR!
Absolutley!
Well said. There's no justifiable reason for not allowing school choice. School choice is being stopped by unionized teachers who would rather have a relatively easy, soft job with three months vacation than work for a parochial school for a private school where they would have to teach to rigorous standards or go elsewhere. I know some teachers will say that they work really hard and it's a tough job, but that's probably only true in tough inner-city schools. The teachers in my schools in suburban San Diego had it really easy and they knew it. Until you've worked a tough coporate job like being a management consultant or a high-tech engineer in a demanding company, you don't know what a tough job is.
No, the voucher program, while I like the concept of school choice... is at the end of the day NOT a solution. ALl that will happen is that private schools that take the vouchers will end up having the government use that funding source as a backdoor to destroy and corrupt their educational freedom as well.
You want your kid educated properly, YOU, not the government must take responsibility for it. Find a good private school and send your kid to it, or home school. Yes it will cost you money, but so be it. No better investment out there.
Public schools are the equivalent of the Public Defender... everyone that is breathing knows that a public defender is nowhere near as capable as a private lawyer... not even liberals will try to argue that they are. However for some reason when it comes to public education they want folks to believe the public schools are great, when in fact they are in general the worst option out there.
I think we will and should always have public schools, however they should only be used as the last resort for your kids education (In most places.. yes wealthy neighborhoods with homogeneous populations can and often do have exemplary public schools, but they are the exeception) NOT the first.
Vouchers require socialist tax collection. In a non-compulsory system, the few parents that can't afford phonics classes would get covered by charity.
And don't forget that vouchers will get paid to anti-Christian Islamic madrassas...
The real solution is to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education. A voucher system could have unintended consequences, money coming from the Federal Government usually has chains attatched.