Posted on 09/29/2010 10:28:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Government school teacher PING!
The Feds should get out of education entirely.
Leave it to the local communities to fund and manage their own districts.
ping
Engineers in China.....make like 1K one hundred a year....teachers make 1K.......just a guess.
I’ve been saying for years that the problem with public education is NOT a lack of funding. And a lot of the decisions made regarding public schools frequently benefit teachers’ unions at the expense of the students.
As the son of a retired high school teacher, I have a lot of inside perspective on the subject. My dad was ready to retire probably ten years before he actually did.
Obama doesn’t think private enterprise works at anything.
How are you going to dumb down America if you we are abolishing government-run schools?
“Every community in America should give all parents a voucher equal...”
No, giving money to the government just to give back is silly, counterproductive and expensive.
Cut taxpayer taxes the amount of education and we move on.
Should be an interesting thread! I am homeschooled by a self-taught brainiac — or as the brainiac would say, an autodidactic polymath — who was anti public school way back in the 1960s. We’re currently homeschooling my young sibling here at 668. So far the family sports just that one aforementioned genius, but even the youngun compares favorably to any college graduate.
Moreover, public school is a form of welfare. Just say no.
But amen to killing the Department of Education. Even if it was constitutional, judging by the performance of public schools these days, it should be shut down because it isn't doing anything.
Vouchers will just back-door federal/political control. Education isn’t expensive, but government school is.
The government school system must be dismantled....completely.
“The department was not constitutional in the first place”
The Supreme Court has ruled gov must provide education to every child, legal or illegal which is most of the problem.
They seem to have found a Constitutional clause to force this education.
“The department was not constitutional in the first place”
The Supreme Court has ruled gov must provide education to every child, legal or illegal which is most of the problem.
They seem to have found a Constitutional clause to force this education.
Since prisoners have to spend all their time behind bars, why shouldn’t our children have to spend more time at school?
There is still a place for community controlled public schools. The key words being community, as in parents and teachers working together to provide children with a decent education. An education that allows them to develop life skils and the academic skills they need. One that is focused on dispensing knowledge not indoctrination.
The sad truth is that if the home is broken then the child’s chances in school are also broken. The way government schools are set up they just can not help already disadvantaged children thrive in schools. Community schools developed with the leeway to use methods that work for the challenges facing that community would be a good alternative for those who can not afford tuitions.
Prepare to be flamed.
Just this year, that idiot senator woman Murkowski was saying that no Republican ever advocated for abolishing the Department of Education.
Rand Paul’s primary opponent accused him of wanting to abolish the Department of Education.
Shutting down public schools is not a “conservative Republican” idea these days.
I’m for abolishing government schools and the property tax. Let’s restore property rights while we’re at it seeing as how they say property taxes fund government schools.
I know, I’m just an evil misogynist and racist.
tuition tax credits would work.
Found in the penumbra, no doubt.
bttt
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