if all the kids from the bad public school use vouchers to goto the Lower cost private schools what's the difference? same students = same problem?
Along that line of thinking you can just move all the kids to a private school and everything is fixed?? If we're thinking like that then its something IN the old school that's causing the problems, then it can be fixed, teachers screwing up? I mean trouble making kids will be able to goto the new school too, but if everyone is entitled to put their kids into private schools does it really solve anything, besides get rid of all those damn buses that get in our way on our morning commutes ;) Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer EDIETS.COM 954.360.9022 X159 ICQ 417645 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:24 PM Subject: Re: Bow to me. Bow to each other. At the ready ... > Monday, July 1, 2002, 7:33:33 PM, you wrote: > JvD> Jon Hall wrote: > >> I'm totally for the school voucher thing. Simply because what it will amout > >> to is a set monetary figure for how much per student the government will > >> spend on educating each child, and schools will be competing with each other > >> for students. So not only does quality come into play, so do the economies > >> of scale. The strength's of the market economy brought to education. > > JvD> Didn't that happen a long time ago already and isn't that now commonly > JvD> refered to as "grade inflation"? > > Funny :) > > >> What I envision is that in the end there will be fewer, larger school > >> "chains" that will dominate the education industry. This will allow > >> education to be much more efficient than the current system, but the > >> downfall may be the quality of education received at the lowest level, but > >> that should be self correcting because word will get out to the parents. > > JvD> But will all parents have the resources to actually send their children > JvD> to the school they want? In other words, will the vouchers be large enough? > > That's my point, the end effect is that whatever the voucher amount > is will end up being how much a year of education is going to cost. > Expensive private schools will still be expensive private schools, but > a new breed of lower cost private schools will be the end effect, with > the freedom to get away from all the crap that public schools have to > deal with. > > jon > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
