Posted on 02/10/2007 9:38:54 AM PST by achilles2000
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If I had children today, I would never put them in a public school. If everyone that cared about their kids put them in private schools they would be much better off and their kids would outshine students in the public schools.
I agree, but even better - the public schools would be defunded and delegitimized. That would clear the board for an entirely fresh discussion of education in this country - one to which the unions would not be invited.
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Putting children in private schools, by itself, does nothing to defund public schools.
All it does is reduce their expenses, giving them more money to misuse.
Interesting.
In most states, there is per capita funding received from the state and federal governments that is in addition to local funding. In those states, there is a "snap-shot" date to determine the school census in the fall, which is why students are almost never expelled before the snapshot date.
Thus, declining enrollment means less money. This in turn creates problems vis fixed costs in the budget and leads to fights among the various special interests who don't want to accept part of the "pain." The ongoing meltdown of Detroit schools is a good example of this.If you live in a state that doesn't fund this way, I'd like to know which one it is just for my own information. Thanks!
Yup, I'm glad we don't live in any of those districts.
Six of one...1/2 dozen of another...
It will for an alternative system that can prove it self. Most parents want the best for the kids as do I. I have a 4 and 5 year old just starting the government reprogramming process called public school.
I can't afford to go private and have no other choice right now.
The largest sign in the school says “Save the planet recycle"
The word Christmas in not ever used in any way shapes or form in the school. It is treated like the "F" word.
And this is one of the top ten public schools in AZ.
We need a new system fast or our country will not survive.
We have homeschooled our daughter for 8 years now. There are alternatives, although for most people no easy ones.
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I especially noticed "Parents who are offering their children as a sacrifice to the Moloch of government schools..."
Compulsory attendance laws violate morality no matter what the government schools do or teach.
They initiate a threat of violence against all parents and they condition children to accept involuntary servitude.
In most states, school districts are in fact funded on a average-per-capita attendance basis. Removal of 10% of the involuntary ''customers'' from a district would defund the district significantly...but not enough, unfortunately.
Sorry, didn't see your post before replying. Spot on, and better said than mine.
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
And then they join the Democratic Party...
That is shocking. Good grief.
If it were me, I would organize a "boycott" of the school. Organize parents to pull out all kids from the school, and refuse to bring them back until the administration that knew of the assault is sacked, one and all. The School Board and Administration would be forced to act, and it woukd cause maximum embarrassment.
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