Posted on 08/20/2004 7:44:54 AM PDT by DeathTaxesNoles
I know schools in the past were much tougher in academics
No one wants to elminate public schools. What concerned people and parents want is greater options in educational opportunities and choices for their children.
Children were never educated prior to government schools. The USA was a backwards nation and all of its residents lived out of caves and chased bison, turkey and snipe for food.
With a voucher system or with a tax rebate system.
In the past, most schools were church run, and since taxes were much lower, people were able to more easily give.
The public school system is a MONOPOLY - a bigger and more powerful than Bill Gates of Microsoft could ever dream of.
The governmment-NEA complex needs to be dismantled.
An easy first step to separate school and the state is to allow parents to choose the school they send their child(ren) to. It even allows for a reduction of taxes because private schools are so much more efficient than public schools.
"No one wants to elminate public schools."
I would like to do just that.
Before public schoools????
I would hazard a guess it was in private, home, or church schools.
In olden days, there were one room school houses that produced nobel laureates. Teachers had more say in curriculum and approach and the town leaders to whom they were accountable were not an expansive bureaucracy.
Small organizations, small businesses are easier to manage well than are big organizations and big business.
Furthermore, let's look at the data gathered by leftist organization Masspirg. They wanted to find that dollars spent had a beneficial impact on the quality of education, but found instead that dollars spent had no impact over the quality of education, that the quality was affected by number of hours per evening that parents did homework with their children.
This received little attention as it did not support the policies desired by the left.
Do like I and my wife do and teach them yourself. Besides, the truly important things kids learn, they learn from their parents anyway, be they good or ill.
My great grandmother and her sister "graduated" in the middle of the year when she was in the 9th grade. Their teacher was the one who made the desicion, wrote up a test and declared them graduated all in one day.
This was in backwoods Mancelona Michigan around 1910 or so. My grandmother was an extremely smart person who's husband left her with 5 kids during the depression. She managed to care for her kids on her own till she remarried. Then after my great grandfathers death managed to care for herself till her death in 1996.
Once upon a time parents assumed the responsibility of educating their own children.
No doubt some parents taught their children such things as the 3 R's, if they could read. Some Indian children were taught by missionaries.
It was publicly-supported education that made America literate.
Unfortunately, they don't do that in public schools very much anymore.
Maybe a good solution would be to de-nationalize education and let the states be responsible for it. It is local taxes that pay for it after all.
Teacher's unions should be abolished (all public sector unions should be abolished), and collusion with the NEA should be illegal.
It is true that most children got little to no (formal) education up until this century. Back then the education you did get was from the church or your parents.
I'd vote for it too!
Why does it cost $10,000 for nine months of public schooling per child?
Bump for a read of replies later.
Those dumb Founding Fathers proves it.
People learned through apprenticeship --- particularly, doctors, lawyers, etc.
The U.S. Speaker of the House, 'Ol What's his name, in the 1960's was a lawyer through apprenticeship, if I recall.
Remember, Monica was also in training for President through Slick's apprenticeship!
I would be glad to eliminate public schools.
We need public, voucher-based, funding of "private" schools.
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