How is educating "challenged" kids, better for my kids education?
Calling me rich? How very liberal of you...it wont get you anywhere with me though. Growing up in a mobile home in the middle of a tobacco field in North Carolina, we were so poor that I once wore the same pair of shoes for two entire years, before they fell apart. I couldn't even go to school. A relative in another state finally heard about it and sent me some shoes... Robert Byrd had nothing on me :) jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:10 PM Subject: RE: Bow to me. Bow to each other. At the ready ... > Must be nice to be rich Jon. Vouchers are just a back handed way to > subsidize religious schools whose educational quality, with a few > exceptions, are not all that great. > > Private schools do not have to take in all children. Public schools do. > Right now if a child is in need of special ed, there are very few private > schools that are willing to accept that kid. So much for a choice. > > If private schools want government funding then they should have to operate > under the same rules. Otherwise no money should be going to support private > schools. > > 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: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:05 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Bow to me. Bow to each other. At the ready ... > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > 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. > > > > I say let the parents decide where to send their kids. If they think > > religion is more important to their kids future career than some other > > discipline, let them reap what they sow. > > > > > > > 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. > > > > That just it! They do not have to operate under the same > > exact rules. They > > can even impose entrance tests to keep out the morons. > > > > > 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. > > > > When was the last time you were in a high school? It wasn't > > too long ago > > that I was a high school student, and I can tell you, very > > little actual > > learning goes on in school these days. > > > > jon > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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
