....and the winner of the N.S. Sherlock Award goes to....John Stossel!!! Come on down !!
Posted on 01/11/2006 4:56:37 AM PST by Puzzleman
Last week, Florida's supreme court ruled that public money can't be spent on private schools because the state constitution commands the funding of only "uniform . . . high-quality" schools. How absurd. As if government schools are uniformly high quality. Or even mostly decent.
Apparently competition, which made even the Postal Service improve, is unconstitutional when it comes to public education in Florida.
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What a thought ... working hard to provide a service the customer wants to pay for!
In the U.S., the worse schools do, the more money they get. Why are we surprised that we have increasing costs for declining results?
How many Freepers out there home school your kids?
My baby is due in a few weeks. My husband and I are taking care of her and homeschooling her. She will never set foot in a "daycare" center or a "government" school. If I have to read another article about a teacher having sex with a student I will puke.
Ping. We homeschool.
Stossel says "Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby told me. 'If schools don't perform well, a parent would never be trapped in that school in the same way you could be trapped in the U.S.'"
I believe the teachers union trap the kids in public schools. The union doesn't want competition and doesn't want to be held accountable for actually teaching.
I watched a local access cable program a few months back. A grass roots movement of teachers from the district hired a consultant to speak about strategies for extracting more money from the State. The state education budget is tight as is the districts. I watched the whole program in amazement because I did not hear any ideas or strategies on how to reduce costs, not one.
If you are in the private sector and your budget is tight, the first thing you look at are costs and where you can reduce them.
Of course it is. Public schools are a monopoly, of which you have no choice but to pay for. Otherwise they could never get away with such incompetence.
"Public Schools Are Cheating the Children"
Duh!
Lots and lots.
In California, 50% of the budget goes to public schools. THEY ARE A TOTAL FAILURE.
They have one principal and 6 assistant principals. Each one of those asst. principals makes 80 - 100,000.00 a year. Top heavy schools, Wasteful of resources. Janitors don't clean, they only drive around emptying trash cans the 'special needs' kids fill after lunch, and put the flag up.
Otherwise they sit around doing much about nothing...
I was afraid that my kids would not get a complete education, because of my own short comings.
In the years I've been involved with the school system in my town, there has been one teacher, a polio victim, caught molesting female students, (he was head of the biology department), and I had him for study hall when I was 13 (1969).
A gay man who seemed to follow my kids from grammar school to the middle school, who in middle school brought his life partner into class to display alternative life styles. The students came home mostly laughing and saying how ridiculous they thought he was.
I have mixed feelings about the home schooling, but if you can do it, you should try. My sister is a credentialed teacher and homeschooled her son. The son is well balanced, intelligent, and has NO social skills problems I can see.
Good luck.
We homeschool. My kids have never attended public school. They are ages 14, 12, 9 and 7. I think homeschoolers and private schoolers should get tax breaks for providing our children's education.
I'm wonder if the lawyer pleading this case wasn't worth his salt. I would think the uniform state standards that all schools private or public must meet would be proof of uniformity.
I homeschool"ed" my children, does that count:). They are grown adults now, married, working, raising their own children, in their own homes:).
They plan on homeschooling thier children. Their spouses have been completly won over to the idea, having been public schooled.
Becky
....and the winner of the N.S. Sherlock Award goes to....John Stossel!!! Come on down !!
Rhode Island homeschoolers here.
We made the decision when our daughter was only 2 years old. The local school districts were applauding their 64% average for 4th grade level math, and 62% average in reading on their regional school Report Cards.
I simply cannot abide the public school's "Celebrate Mediocrity!" mantra.
Add to that the secular, anti-Christianity, pro-sex ed, pro-homosexual, liberal revisionist history curriculum they foist upon children, and it's a no-brainer that people should homeschool their kids.
If you're thinking of doing it, do it. Whatever it takes to afford it. Your kids are worth more than a 2nd car or family vacations to Disney World.
You and your husband are doing the right thing - don't let anyone try and convince you otherwise!
Day Care warehouses and public schools are liberal, socialist indoctrination centers bent on imposing their agenda.
I was convinced we had done the right thing when my 6 year old nephew (who is public-schooled) told me that "sometimes it's ok for a boy to dress like a girl, and a girl to dress like a boy". Said they talked about it in class. I wanted to cry.
Interesting points. Superintendents make a fortune in this area, too, although they seem to have made their careers in administration, rather than football.
In some ways, it might be better to have an ex-football coach run the district than a "professional educator." You've got to have some sense to be a successful football coach!
Yes, but they let the "educationists" run the academic side of the school. They actually believe that an Ed.D after a person's name means that the person knows something.
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