Posted on 01/05/2006 8:32:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
What can I say? It's happening. They work 2 jobs, grandparents help, they apply for partial scholorship, volunteer work for partial tution...whatever it takes.
"Public education is simply andother wealth transfer, welfare program and should be treated as such."
Worse. It's an extortion, cash funnelling racket. Imagine a school teacher with just 20 students, getting $6,000 per student per year [the national average was 5,900 back in the 90s]. $120,000 a year. Could that teacher manage, you think? Just where is all that money going? Graft, waste, apathy, etc.
It's wrong for parents to be taxed into paying for an education system that they aren't using. Madness. People will rationalize like crazy to keep from paying twice.
If you want to get America's kids competitive education, if you want America to be strong, if you want to end all the leftist brainwashing in public schools, the best way is to expedite more parental control and less government control of education funds.
You do that one family at a time. Mine go to private, where parents are in control. Why would I want vouchers with strings from the government? Then I would be paying double public school taxes. The way to change is for parents to pull their kids out and private or homeschool them.
You could also opt for a tax refund to parents if they opt out of public schools: $6,000 per student [unless you want part of that to go to special education, such as maybe $1,500 of it, and only have $4,500 per student.] Such a tax refund keeps the government out of private schools as much as is now.
Also, I believe that the American people are fed up with leftist meddling in education and would not stand for too much regulation in a new system, once attention is drawn like a laser to the issue, and parents are school-shopping [or considering home schooling].
I look at this from a logistical viewpoint. The average cost per student-year in public schools was 5,900 back in the 90s. I'd imagine it's now 6000 or more. A class of 20 would be $120,000. Imagine the waste, fraud, and redundancy that leads to all that cost. Not much of it is effectively spent to educate the child.
A lot of the waste and fraud can be found in special education. After special education costs, the cost-per-normal student was $3,500. That's almost half of the education budget.
Free this cash up, and we have an education revolution in America!
Besides, as things stand, the teachers' union and leftist dogma have turned public schools into sewers. I want to free those kids from those sewers.
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