Posted on 11/30/2012 12:31:47 PM PST by Thad Lost
In America, we have a huge problem. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, we are told. Yet we are wasting untold minds in America. America has a huge problem in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
A solution has been proposed to help America but the solution idiotically misses the real problem.
What is this non-solution and what is the real problem America will not address?
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Same here. I have two college grads with engineering degrees and one studying to be a doctor. They were all taught at home from day one. It's too bad more people don't view homeschooling as a good alternative to traditional schooling.
Congratulations to you!
Congratulations yourself.
Vouchers stink. I hope they’re never adopted. Why? Because He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune.
Don’t like condom-on-a-cucumber? You can at least send your kid to a private school at your own cost and avoid it. Once the government starts paying for it, though, expect those lessons in prophylactics for vegetables to be taught in the private schools as well.
—College entrance at the ages of 13, 12, and 13.
—Finished all college required courses and Calculus III by the age of 15.
—Two finished B.S. degrees in math at the age of 18.
—One taught college math at the age of 18 to college students and earned a M.S. in math at 20.
—The oldest was a nationally and internationally ranked athlete. Worked and studied in Eastern Europe and is fluent in Russian, and earned a masters in accounting at an age typical for those institutionalized in government schools.
I have mixed feeling about vouchers, tax credits, and charters.
Against:
—Because He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune.
— We may see private school tuition inflation as we have seen with college tuition.
For:
— They may provide a means to build the private infrastructure needed to replace the government institutional schools.
— There are voucher programs ( food stamps and Section 8) programs that haven’t led to excessive government control or price inflation.
Conclusion:
Fundamentally, I would support vouchers only as a means to bring about the complete separation of school and state. That must always be the conservative goal.
“Fundamentally, I would support vouchers only as a means to bring about the complete separation of school and state. That must always be the conservative goal.”
We have a more or less functioning private school system, home education that is doing wonderfully, and the disaster that is the government schools (which I don’t blame the government solely for, BTW). I agree with you as to the end result, but I just don’t see vouchers being worth the risk they bring.
The government schools are going to do what they’re going to do. Shaking the Aid to Families with Dependent Parents habit is going to be tough for parents, but it’s going to happen for all but the destitute, the indifferent, and the terminally clueless.
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