--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> john stossels piece aired last night on channel 7 - stupid in
america. How shitty some of our
> schools are.
>
> Compared to Belgium, where families get the "money" to send their
kids to a school of their
> choice. The kicker - the schools HAVE to PERFORM and provide
services the parents (and kids
> ) want.
>
> If they fail, they close.
>
> So the education system is run as a business. The schools have to
compete for the $. If they
> don't, they fail.
>
> Not like here, where the schools employ attorneys to sue the state
for funding because they
> can't figure out where in one system, close ONE BILLION dollars in
state money has gone,
> with litle results. AND no one has to account for it. Just get
more.
>
If the schools were ever run like Belgium's, we'd ALL be the better
educated for it. I agree with you 100%!
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