If we want school competition, lets um, have competitions! In school! Fer reals tho- with fun stuff, so the kids don't even realize they're learning.
Somehow I don't think the math expressed below re: vouchers, equals a solution. :Den -- I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Gauss, Karl Friedrich On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > Fixing the funding problem of schools could be easy. > > Many people preach the virtues of vouchers based on education quality. > > I say this is the wrong approach. Voucher advocates should preach the > financial benefits. > > If a state averages 10k per student, a 5k voucher would net the school > system 5k for every student who leaves with less students to care for. > > The number of building to keep up, the number of bus routes, etc., would > decrease meaning more money to use on students. The number of state paid > teachers would decrease, meaning fewer salaries and benefits to pony up. > > There would be a rise in the number of private schools catering to the > desires of parents. IT themed, math themed, dance themed, heritage themed, > and so on. These schools could be subjected to the same standardized tests > as the public schools so achievement could be measured and vouchers for > particular schools could be allowed based on performance. > > > J > > - > > Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with > power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - > Thomas Jefferson on government > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324792 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
