On Apr 7, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 07/04/2013 5:40 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> >> >>> But if we establish a charter school system to provide competition for our >>> failing public schools, offering choices seems reasonable. I >have no >>> problem with some of my tax dollars going to a Muslim school or a school >>> that preaches the modern religion of secularism, as long >as those schools >>> are succeeding and other options are available. Freedom is about options. >> >> As a society, you would do better to put a great deal of effort into fixing >> your failing public schools rather than setting up a separate school system >> by and for the financial elites. > > With vouchers private schools aren't just for the financial elite. And we've > tried mightily to fix our public schools. I spent ten years working on it. > But there are huge obstacles, including teacher unions that make it nearly > impossible to get bad teachers out of the schools. Even with the performance > standards recently enacted, less than 1 % of the current teaching staff has > been judged ineffective. Yet their students are failing. Competition is the > best answer.
If you really want kids to do well in school, you just need to make sure that every kid has access to either an Asian or a Jewish mother. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
