Posted on 09/29/2010 10:28:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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I should have checked first....
I’ve been saying this for roughly five years and was hinting at it for the five years before that. The Public school system did what it needed to do. It was right for its time. That time passed around the end of the last century. When I watched a movie about five years ago where a mother told her son to “GOOGLE it”, that was when I knew that schools were a complete waste of our money.
Sure, without public schools parent involvement would determine the quality of education a child gets. But when was that NOT true? We could give a computer and a basic curriculum to every family with school aged children (even one per child) along with free high speed internet access and those with even somewhat involved parents would get a better education than most get now.
The real strength of this would be the kids would get none of the negative social involvement that most schools have in spades. Families could take responsibility for and manage their kids social paths. e.g. no more drugs and sex in the school parking lot or having to deal with bullies while teachers turn away.
It’s time to let public schools retire gracefully and not outlive their welcome like so many movie star has-beens.
It seems to be a common theme with the left -
they use the government to FORCE those who don’t agree with them to pay to advance the left’s agenda.
The NEA is paying half the transportation costs for teachers to attend an Obama rally this weekend.
No kidding. We home-school, and cover all of the required curriculum for our 8 yr old in about 1-1/2 hrs/day. The rest of the time is practical application.
I think it was William Bennett who said that if a foreign country came here and put in place the kind of education system we have now in the U.S., we’d rightly consider it an act of war.
“Obama doesn’t think private enterprise works at anything.”
I guess he thinks all that money private enterprise gave him came from some money tree, and he should have that tree.
Leave it to the local communities to fund and manage their own districts.”
Right on!!
The school I attended, along with my 3 brothers, was run by the local farmers & parents. Going to the annual school board meeting was a big deal & no one missed the event- even the parents whose kids were grown & out of that school.
Why? because those persons were also business owners who would be hiring us in the future. They had a stake in our getting a good basic education for our emploument skills.
Today- school boards are manned by ‘former teachers’ who pander to the ‘teachers’ & the unions.
There is basically no accountability.
It is a game of musical chairs & none of them are ever on the hot seat.
They turn out ignorant kids who are unemployable & who have been told all their lives how ‘special’ they are.
Hasn’t the failed experiment of government schooling already proven that government isn’t capable of teaching?
The definition of insanity is what again?
The government at all levels should get out of the edumakashun bidness. They do an utterly rotten job and we cannot afford to have more generations of kids propagandized at taxpayer expense. Take gummint out of the equation and there will be no more 14th amendment lawsuits trying to force acceptance of lavender homecoming “queens.” The kids will no longer be relentlessly bombarded with “green” (Marxist) propaganda. It is not just because of the federales that these problems occur. There are plenty of hard-core leftists involved on a local level as well. Give people the opportunity to pay to private schools as many of their own gummint skewel tax dollars as they choose and that will be a big headstart toward curing the gummint skewel problem.
Does anyone know of a resource that spells out actually how much we spend on public schooling, either per capita or or per student if it was averaged out amongst all schools? Including what the schools get from local, state and national taxes as well as foundations, etc?
Could that have been A.C.E.? Accerlerated Christain Education. They have a very successful program for Christian schools and home schooling, and are based somewhere just north of Dallas.
Yes. It was A.C.E.
Thank you for the memory jog. :-))
Yes. It was A.C.E.
Thank you for the memory jog. :-))
I am not a teacher but have friends and family who are and I am sick of listening to the tired line that insists our problem is the teachers and administration in the schools. Rather than closing down public schools, allow them to expel the students who are problem. Schools are FORCED to keep kids who have no desire to learn but a big desire to create havoc in the classroom - making it nearly impossible to teach those who want to learn. Take the problem children in DC and force the same school that Obama’s girls attend to accept these students and let’s see how successful that school is.
More often than not, the schools are taking the rap for societal problems created by idiots like Obama who then removes himself and his family from the results of his legislation and those like him.
Try to think out side the box.
Imagine a system where the only restaurants were primarily controlled by the government, employed a unionized government workforce and provided food that was nominally free? Just how good do you think the food would be?
Oh, those hoodlum kids you describe are largely the product of another government program - welfare.
Every community in America should give all parents a voucher equal to what it now pays per-pupil for its public schools, allowing those parents to use those vouchers at any school they choose. Let the market decide if government-run schools survive.
If we're serious about the free market deciding, we shouldn't even have a voucher program. Everyone would do what homeschoolers and private schoolers are doing now - they'd pay for it on their own. More churches would set up schools. Cooperatives would flourish. We would have many more choices in education than we have now.
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