The Fight to Reform Education

Townhall.com ^ | February 5, 2012 | Derek Hunter

[TurboZamboni]

excellent.

[wintertime]

Here’s an idea to save money without costing the taxpayer a dime:

Allow any student of any age to take the GED or similar private exam. If they pass, award them a high school diploma from their local high school. As it is now, students must be a certain age or older before they are permitted to take the GED.

By having a regular high school diploma bright and ambitious students would be able to qualify for college scholarships and loans, attend trade school, or start their careers many years earlier instead wasting time in their local government kiddie prison ( oops! “school”). It would save the taxpayer money, as well.

By the way, no student should be given a high school diploma without passing the GED or similar exam, and no teacher should be teaching in a government school who couldn’t pass it as well.

[aruanan]

Almost all the trouble we now have in the United States has come from a commie or a progressive trying to use the government to reform something.

[TurboZamboni]

Unions are interested in protecting systems and
monopolies,not people.Keeping the status quo is easier than
innovating.If vouchers are going to “siphon money from government schools” (as they claim) why isn’t the same true in higher education?
I don’t hear state college professors running around crying about Pell grant(”government dollars”)money “unfairly” being used to attend St.Thomas,Gustavus,St.Johns or
other private religiously affiliated schools. What happened to the imaginary wall of church and state there?

Since government doesn’t create wealth and only consumes it, how can it give parents back what was always theirs anyway?

Part of the beauty of being an American is choices.Look in the yellow pages. Thirty-one flavors or thirty thousand attorneys to choose from. Variety is a good thing.Some may choose for proximity,some for class size,some for shared belief systems,or a class for gifted mathematicians.Why is choice and competition considered good in everything except education?