[RedBeaconNY]

Uggghhh... I go to a public school right now, ranked in the top 50 nationwide according to Newsweek, and the crap that they allow to go on with in those walls is absurd. We have three administrators for a building of barely 1000 kids. That, and the taxes we pay are pretty near the cost of tuition at any of our local pariochal schools.

[Ivana Denisovich]

... the taxes we pay are pretty near the cost of tuition at any of our local pariochal schools.

Vouchers would be a good way to increase the standards in both public and private schools. Competition in the marketplace always helps. It just burns me - and others I know - be to paying tuition at a private school AND knowing part of our property taxes goes to the local school district.

the crap that they allow to go on with in those walls is absurd

Do you think it's any better at the private schools around you? I remember being pretty shocked at what was allowed at a Catholic private school. I think, in general, the society has fallen so far down that things that are seen as 'normal' today wouldn't have even been considered a couple of decades ago. Of course, some school administrators are more lenient than others...