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Your kid and my kid are just as "special" as these kids, yet we can't get custom-tailored programs to help our kids reach their potential. Why not?

Another question: If you had an extra $100,000 to spend on educating a kid, who would you choose to spend it on, a bright kid who might cure cancer someday, or a kid who will be lucky if he ever learns to tie his shoes? (Before you flame me, I am NOT saying that slow kids should not be educated or should be warehoused or ignored, just that we need to have a little common sense in the distribution of our assets.)

We need to examine our priorities in this country. The public education system would be a good place to start.

IndyInVa wrote:

Another question: If you had an extra $100,000 to spend on educating a kid, who would you choose to spend it on, a bright kid who might cure cancer someday, or a kid who will be lucky if he ever learns to tie his shoes?

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Seems to me a lot of those extra bright kids are growing up and murdering their parents or hating their country.

Example just yesterday in Pennsylvania where the kid killed two parents because they disagreed with him dating their daughter.

I work around many well educated adults who couldn't tie their shoes as children.

Also seems to me that the Ghettos are good examples of your suggestion being used to the max.

Another question: If you had an extra $100,000 to spend on educating a kid, who would you choose to spend it on, a bright kid who might cure cancer someday, or a kid who will be lucky if he ever learns to tie his shoes? (Before you flame me, I am NOT saying that slow kids should not be educated or should be warehoused or ignored, just that we need to have a little common sense in the distribution of our assets.)

We need to examine our priorities in this country. The public education system would be a good place to start

We need to free the "free" public schools. I'd guess my district here in Texas spends around $100 on "special" children for every $1 it spends on gifted children. I used to have the numbers at hand but that is the impression I got.

As long as attendance and property taxes are compulsory, then choice MUST be a component of the government school system for it to be effective.

I think if we started calling them "government schools" instead of public schools we might begin to pry some tax dollars from them, not to mention loyalty.

PS - If Southern Baptists started private schools instead of home schooling so much, they might find a unified voice to challenge the government school stranglehold. Ditto for other Proetestant denominations.