Really, and if there isn't a choice between private schools. For example the vast majority of the private schools receiving vouchers in Cleveland were religious institutions. To me that still violates the establishment clause. Additionally secular private schools charge far above what the vouchers pay for. The rest have to come out of the parents pockets. Some choice. So far the program seems to be an attempt to publicly subsidize private religious education.
Secondly, if private schools were to operate under the exact same rules as the public schools do, or at the very least in terms of accepting all children regardless of handicap etc. then their performance would be very close to public schools. for instance I did an analysis in grad school of differences between public and private schools in term of academic performance on the NORC data. When controlling for parental involvement, all differences between public and private schools disappeared in terms of academic achievement. In other words it is other factors rather than the myth that private schools are intrinsically better that account for improved school performance. As for the system being broken, that's another myth that's been foisted on the public by politicians. While the US in not at the top in k-12, it is certainly not at the bottom, (those countries without a public school system seem to be over represented at the bottom of the list). Moreover this country has made some very notable improvements over the last 20 years. larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 7:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Bow to me. Bow to each other. At the ready ... > > > 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. > 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. > Unless of course there is only one school, and we end up with > a monopoly... > Sounds like a big gamble, but I'd be willing to toss the > dice. The current > system is broken here in the US anyway. > > jon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:56 PM > Subject: Bow to me. Bow to each other. At the ready ... > > > > Fight! > > > > http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20020701/D7KGAV680.html > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
