Still Against Private Schools? Think Again. - Page 3

CC scares the fuck out of me.

Well I'm guessing it produced Spam Sandwich and Chris. Oh the beautiful paradox that creates.

It produced the vast majority of Americans with any formal education whatsoever.

Yeah... The jugular... I think I like the slow bleeding death a little too much for my own good...

Okay, I see your point, and this is the kind of situation where, I am saying, the government must be involved in to keep the system fair and equitable. A school must allow students to take a class elsewhere, when it is not offered by them, and there needs to be regulation on the financial arrangement between schools for these situations.

It puts an extra burden on parents if they have to negotiate such things, and arrange to have tuition split between schools. True, if the parents paid their own cash to each school it would make it a little simpler, but there can still be inequities without regulation. What if a school insists on full tuition, even when a student takes some of the classes elsewhere? Then a poor family must pay more, full tuition plus extra tuition for the other school. The government could insist that schools have an equitable way of handling these kinds of issues. so it is fair for all parties.



It is naive to think a rental property owner is going to give the tenant all the money he or she saves on taxes.



There will always be debates about how much government regulation and funding there should be, for anything. We do not have a true free enterprise economy now, and likely never will. Such freedoms lead to abuse and it had to be regulated. However, I think I agree with you that today's educational system is too much in the hands of government. Free enterprise could be what it takes to cure its ills. Yet it will take regulation to keep it equitable and fair. But it would take no more regulation than we might expect in other parts of the business world today. Some businesses are highly regulated now, to protect those whom the business serves. It's not unreasonable to have the same degree of regulation in the business of education.



Are you going somewhere?

I've read this thread with interest, as educating our young should be our most important task as 'responsible adults'. This is an assumption I make, as I have no children, and other than my 'trip' thru the educational system, I have no direct facts. I do have a large basket of complaints from my sisters and their children as the recent 'state of affair' in public schools.

Most of the ideas bandy'ed about by Chris and Snoop could very well be applicable to the CITY educational environment. However, if I had children in my own locale, my only option of 'choice', or what to do with this voucher thingy, is nil and moot. We have one school. Period.

Of course, one does have the choice to 'home school', but that carries an economic burden about the size/cost of private school. Yes there is a local holy-roller school, but enough said about that.

Not just by default, I will side with Hardee. Unless you all can get some shit to work better than what we got, public schools, and the government monopoly that maintains them is the way to go.

Now, at what time will Chris and Hardee duel? I wish to attend.

Paz

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