Posted on 04/11/2008 4:29:33 AM PDT by lexfreedom
Also...The concept of prison-like, Prussian style schooling should be abandoned.
Surely we could learn a few things from homeschoolers. Haven't they shown us that with today's technology children can progress faster, and learn material more thoroughly when the curriculum is individualized and children progress at their own pace?
Christians ( Catholic and Protestant) must recognize that for many reasons their churches will not (or can not in the case of the Catholic Church) build or open brick and mortar schools for their children. They must begin to organize education alternatives among themselves. Surely, the example of the homeschoolers could give them ideas on how to do this.
By the way, the idea that churches will rescue their kids should be abandoned. They likely won't. There are too many government teachers in the pews putting money in the collection plate.
Get your kids out.
Close the madrassas down!
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Start with the children!
Get kids out of the government schools. See post #12 on how to do this. Then in 12 short years were could have armies of conservative youth entering the colleges and universities prepared to stare Marxism down. These kids would then move into business, politics, and the media with a sound understanding of the true sources of economic and personal freedom.
Hey! This is what the Marxists did! Conservatives should reverse the process by getting kids OUT of the government schools and into conservative schools.
As it is now, conservatives have to re-educate a liberal population that has been thoroughly indoctrinated in government K-12 schools and colleges and universities. This sounds to me like twice the work. Once to undo all the liberal indoctrination, and then second reeducate them in conservatism.
Personally, I believe that if parents had the choice they would get their kids OUT of the government schools. Conservatives should give them the opportunity. ( See post #12 for how to do that. )
And yes they should abandon these indoctrination center, and in the meantime, do what the unions do, stage “sickouts” with large numbers participating. In MA enrollment in schools is down 30-35%, and schools districts are talking regionalizing and closing some schools because of it. They apparently are not getting the message yet! If there are enough parents who can't, or think that for whatever reason, homschooling or private school is not an option, a sick out on a large scale could help to send a message. And they should join these lawsuits.
EXCELLENT idea!
For working parents surely neighbors could give a hand for one or two days.
There should be press conferences and plenty of publicity as well. The cause should be for two things:
1) Tax credits for private school attendance.
2) An end to the homosexual indoctrination.
Ultimately the world turns on money whether you like it or not. You need to answer this question, how come the cost of educating a child in the government schools costs about $10,000 yearly contrasted to about $20,000 in private school tuition? The private schools have lower teacher saleries compared to the public school union teachers. One other thing that may help to think this through is Harard University recently announced they would no longer charge tuition more than 10 percent of the parents annual income. For a middle-class family making $100,000 annually, that's $10,000. That's incredible.
For your idea to work, you need to know the real economics in the education industry. It sure doesn't make sense to me. Cut private school tuition to $10,000 a year and you will see a flood of applicants.
The **most** expensive church based school in my state is $4,500 ( this year). The **most** expensive secular school is $12,500, or a little more than half the cost of a government school kid in Washington, D.C.
Also you should remember that the exclusive school is not necessarily providing a better education. What the parents are buying for that money is social networking and country club facilities.
By the way, the tuition at my private parochial school in Philadelphia, St. Joan of Arc, was $2,383 for 2002/2003.
Personally, I believe private school tuition could be reduced drastically and quality of education greatly **improved** by abandoning the brick and mortal, Prussian style school, and applying modern technology and the curriculum developed for homeschoolers.
The following is from 2003:
]http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3231
Many people may think private schools are expensive because the costlier private schools also tend to be the most well known. For example, many in Houston have heard about St. John's or Tenney High School, where tuition runs over $13,000 a year. But fewer Houstonians have likely heard of Southeast Academy, Woodward Acres, or Pecan Street Christian Academy, all of which charge less than $3,000 per year, well below the city's private school average of $4,468.
Average private school tuition in other cities tells the same story: a large number of moderately priced private schools with a few very expensive, well-known exceptions. Median private elementary school tuition in Denver is $3,528. In Charleston, $3,150. In Philadelphia, $2,504. In New Orleans, $2,386.
Anthony Williams, mayor of the District of Columbia (where Congress is considering a school voucher program with voucher amounts of up to $7,500), recently stated, mistakenly, that “most private school tuitions run in the five figures — far beyond what is contemplated for the voucher program.”
In truth, according to a recent survey, the median per student cost for private elementary schools in the District of Columbia is $4,500, well below the mayor's “five figures.” Only 39 percent of D.C. private schools have tuitions of $10,000 or more.
In all of these cities, the average private school cost is significantly less than the amount spent for each student in public schools. A voucher or tax credit worth the same amount spent per student in public schools would easily give parents access to the bulk of private schools available in their communities. With more parents able to afford private schools, new schools would open to accommodate the increased number of students.
Government is giving education away for free to the parent. This tuition free education, and the free babysitting that comes with it, is powerfully addicting.
So....If conservatives are going to wean parents away from government education they will need to meet the government's fee: FREE.
Personally, I don't think people appreciate things that are given to them for free, but this is the price that government is charging for its educational product, and conservatives will need to charge the same. Conservatives can do something better with its free voucher schools, they can give a better quality product than the government school.
( See post #12)
This is simply the worst form of sexual abuse and harrassment of children ever conceived by the perverts in league with the sickos running many public schools. Remember, Roman queers were allowed to buy, sell, and abuse little boys in tolerant acceptance by the law. History repeats.
Ah, pointy finger of the righteous. Why slam churches winter? You seem to slam them and support them at the same time.
What about the hundreds of Christian churches across the country that have opened Christian schools?
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Good for them!
Are you aware of the Exodus Mandate? For several years now Bruce Shortt and others have introduced a resolution to the Southern Baptists Convention calling for all Baptist churches to open schools and get their children OUT of the government schools. Every year it is defeated.
I speculate that the reason it is defeated is that too many of the ministers have too many government school employees in the pews.
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