Posted on 01/07/2006 12:45:10 PM PST by wagglebee
Privatize education. All of it.
Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for public education IMHO.
No more 'Socialist Welfare'!
Giving a full tuition ride to dullards because they run fast and can play a sport is not exactly fair to the bright
students that do well in the classroom. Running , jumping, shooting hoops and such should not be the main criteria for college entry. It is unfortunate for the good students to be left in the student loan lines while some really stupid
sports freaks get a free ride. Clarett, Vick and Phillips come to mind.
$11,000 is enough to buy a representative and detailed library of the classics for each pupil to keep at home. Schools would be unnecessary.
Let me tell you about the teacher pay in South Carolina. It sucks. No union either. The medical coverage is also ugly. Teaching school in SC is unlike unionized states.
Lot of different tables, but most show that we're not doing that badly.
How hard would it be to write a morals clause into a contract? Oops, I forget. The teachers would go on strike first. The gays would have a fit if it were possible to fire them for having sex with minors.
Sure. The Kennedys and Rockefellers hate competition. And entrenched political interests don't need a swarm of young, intelligent, informed voters knocking apart the corrupt infrastructures they have spent decades building.
Teddy and Lady Macbeth. Pleeeze don't get me started on those two!
Those people (at least the male athletes who play football and basketball) make up the sports programs that bring in millions of dollars in TV rights and merchandise, etc. to schools. Those dollars are used by the schools for a number of things, not all of which are athletics related.
I forgot something. Sorry.
Have you read anything about "Lillygate"?
There are strong family ties to Eli Lilly.
Kids of democrats are....this is a well established fact.
I concur.
However, who would conduct the indoctrination? Mr. Rogers?
No...your are not. He also promissed to abolish the TEA (Texas Education Administration) and did not suckceed.
I am certain that a plan could be devised whereby the administrators and teachers in a public school could be issued stock based on a scale including various factors such as seniority, position, merit ratings, etc. as to how much stock every individual got. They would then all be co-owners of the school. If I could, I would privatize American education in a manner something like that. They would probably also need the authority to kick kids out, and parents would have the same freedom to choose their childrens' schools. Wouldn't it be instructive to see how fast things would change if something like this were done?
State government, not the feds, is mandated to provide an education to children. However, the state has let the educational establishment set the ground rules in who teaches and what is taught. It is no wonder that the educational level of grads is continually falling.
You have to understand ther mindset behind the schoool's hostility to Escalante. The schools are profoundly anti-intellectual, but in a paradoxicall way. They do their best to futher the social agenda of our intellectual elites while at the same time refusing to teach bright students intellectual skills. Magnet schools are an exception to all the above, but the great majority of students have no chance to go to a magnet school.
Pupil/teacher ratio in K-12 American schools went from 22 in 1970 to 16 in 2000.
I confess I don't know the legal ramifications; but, if possible by law, I say let the ones that aren't interested sit in the first grade until they are 15 unless they can pass the grade-level-test.....and each grade thereafter.
The federal and state education agencies are filled with "educationists." Their whole approach to education is so ideological that they are incapable of accepting real alternatives.
Two of my favorite U. S. Education whistleblowers are:
Lynn Stuter: http://www.learn-usa.com
Beverly Eakman: http://www.beverlye.com
Both of these two women are telling the TRUTH about what has been happening in U. S. public school education.
Incidentally, I learned that Lady Macbeth's Thesis on Saul Alinsky is SEALED at Wellsley. Hmmmm....
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