Posted on 03/14/2005 2:54:06 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Call me old-fashioned, but I sometimes ponder the morality of funding schools with state gambling revenues (casinos & lottery).
If you are, you are not alone. I view any state-sponsored vice as a great evil.
We have that nonsense in Georgia, and ( aside from the moral components, or the endless series of people I see desperate to "win" at Lotto ) everytime I see a billboard crowing "XXX Million in the Ga. Lottery" I think, "great, that's XXX Million less people have to spend on themselves and their families."
To say nothing of it being a welfare system for political hacks and appointees. Perpetuating itself on greed and misery, with other people's money. For the Chillun... of course!
Oh, geez. Here we go again with the evils of public school. Is it any wonder I avoid that site 99% of the time.
I admire Mr. Shortt's ability to see public schools as they are--destructive of moral and religious principles. I think there is a connection between the public school atmosphere and the high rate of suicide among teenagers and college students. Most of what they learn is trash based on false principles. They do not learn skills that are useful for making a living. They learn a bunch of theories and old socialist ideas. They should be taught how to save their money and invest in mutual funds, so they can have a nestegg when they're old and not have to rely on the dying social security. They should learn to speak and write the English language well and to verbalize correct principles, not goobley-gook. Don't know when American parents are going to wake up and stop being lazy about the kids' education.
Homeschooling PING!
As if to add injury to insult, the hacks then play a shell game with the money. If on no other evidence than the fact that they cry there's not enough money for schools. If that's the case, then where are all these gambling revenues going?
Here it seems to be a mystery- the lootery ( dam, a typo, but a true one! ) takes in record-breaking revenues with each succeeding year, but every year, the local school board whines about needing more money. And more property taxes. And new schools.
I really suspect it's like the tobacco settlements, or the UN oil-for-food... a bottomless cesspool of kickbacks, bribes, corruption, and "make-work" jobs for friends connected with the system.
Ping
You must live in Pennsylvania...
So I guess you think public school in its current format is just fine?
I suppose the alternative is to let some evangelical nut educate your kids? No thanks.
One would reason that with the up side down pyramid and with fewer and fewer children being born in the U.S. that the cost of public education would go down, however, the reality is just the opposite, it keeps getting higher even with more and more students being home schooled.
This needs moved out of Front Page News. The article -- actually, it's an ad for the book -- is over a month old. You'd think the poster would know better.
Well if there is a choice I would take the Evangelical nut as opposed to the Liberal Nut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why don't you go ahead and eliminate that 1% so we don't have to be bothered skipping over your less than enlightening comments?
The term "child abuse" gets bandied about far too much as to make it's use nearly meaningless.
Sending your child to a government school in Memphis, Tenn. gives new meaning to "child abuse".
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