Posted on 04/07/2018 5:02:29 PM PDT by alexandriagreen
Instead of handing $13,240 a student to the State Department of Education and trusting them to manage it (which they obviously aren’t doing well), put that money into an educational savings account controlled by the family (it’s the people’s money anyway) that could only be spent on education
Then let all schools, public and private, compete for the best teachers and compete to earn clients (students) by the quality of their product. If parents want their children to be taught social justice, climate change and transgenderism, they can send their kids to those schools. For parents that prefer quality reading, writing, arithmetic, real science and history, they can send their kids to schools that emphasize those classes. The quality of education will be fixed overnight, and parental control will be returned.
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“The quality of education will be fixed overnight.” True.
Same with health insurance: health care savings account, as promoted by President Trump.
Excellent idea. I would also add that a quick and easy fix for our sorry and sad state of affairs with our colleges and universities could also be fixed in 24 hours. Immediately stop, cease, and desist all public funding of colleges and universities. No more grants. No more student loans backed by the government. No more tax funded subsidies of any kind to any college or university.
Think of the billions of dollars tax payers would save. Think of the billions of dollars students would save as tuition and expenses would be cut in half as costs would drop dramatically.
That would cut both the government and the unions out of the play. Never happen.
And then finally I could make a profit with my private homeschool? Sweet! But I totally would not need all that money, let’s say the kids put half of it away for post high school education or job training. I like it!
There are two kinds of people in this world; those who consider government to be a necessary evil, and those who consider government to be a business opportunity where the customer gets no say in the matter.
Paul Blair’s understanding of school finance is, shall we say, less than fully informed. He ought to stick to his basic mission.
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Some level of government may be necessary, but the monster we have now is simply Evil, and far from necessary.
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Never happen.
Liberals hate real teachers.
Liberals hate competition.
Liberals hate choice.
Liberals hate not controlling your money.
And, since home schooled children virtually always outpace publik skooled idiots, liberals hate home schooling.
Yeah, I know, simpler to say that liberals hate everything.
Except themselves. Oh, forgot....
That’s a good solution.
Make the teacher’s bid for the opportunity to instruct the little minds.
A Dutch-auction for the opportunity.
“Never happen.”
Liberals arn’t in charge...
My ex-wife was a middle school teacher of many years. Now retired. I can remember years ago while we were still married we agreed the way to fix education was exactly what this author has in mind.
Let good old American competition fix education. I still agree with this 100%.
So simple, so much saving, so much improvement... But the NEA will NEVER have it.
Sadly, many parents would blow through the money.
Many kids do not have loving parents.
I know of homes where the kids are only there because of the welfare checks they produce.
So have many otherwise socialist countries in Europe. You pay for performance and achievement, you get performance and achievement. You pay for political correctness and nambly pambly pablum, that's what you'll get.
What a novel idea in letting We the People decide where our money goes. I remember when the idea was floated about the choice of investing Social Security and/or having the Thrift Savings Plan like a-holes in government have. The left went absolutely apoplectic and the Republicans ran away like cowards. Its ok, most people trust government with their money and are compassionate enough to give it to illegals and freeloader welfare rats and I suspect Fedgov will steal 401Ks next so that’s that. It’s not like we are going to pay off 22 Trillion in our lifetime. The next generations will just have to print more money, be China’s b*tch and suck it up.
I am an educator and I agree 100%. We should privatize all schools and let the parents choose where to send their children. We also need to do away with many if not all of the federal rules that shackle schools. Allow states and towns to govern their own school systems. I could run an awesome school on less than the education money given per student in my state of Oklahoma. Also, I would not take students he were not interested in learning. A school could have a code of morals and discipline. What a concept.
Proof in point...
My daughter has 5-year old twins, almost 6.
My daughter enrolled them in kindergarten when they had just turned 4.
The twins did quite well and are now in first grade, at the age of 5. They will be 6 when they enter 2nd grade.
The school they attend is a religion-based private school, where religious denominations don’t matter.
Costs per year are $8,000 per student, but, my daughter got a break and is paying “just” $8,000 for both girls.
In any case, each one of the students in the school is performing at a much higher level than those in public schools. How many kids, for example, can get into the 2nd grade when barely six? Both of them are performing at 2nd and 3rd grade levels in various subjects.
Bottom line is that, the girls are receiving superior education and performing at levels higher than their public school counterparts, and their tuition are about half of what the public schools get per student.
Unfortunately, my daughter still pays the public school taxes which pay for every other student in public schools.
So, she pays for the public school system, while sending her daughters to private school on her dime. In essence, my daughter is paying for something she gets no benefit out of.
The point is that, my daughter is getting her daughters a much better education, and at a much lower price than what it costs to “educate” each kid at public schools.
The public education system is the next big swamp monster that Trump needs to tackle. At least at the federal level.
I guess it would depend on whether or not the powers that be really want to fix the education system or not. Government & unions clearly have no place in all this & it should be clear by now that it hasn’t worked under those guidelines.
The necessity to fill out government forms.
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