Reply to "WHAT has the Alabama Education Association done to warrant these ATTACKS?"

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Originally posted by elinterventor01:

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Originally posted by seeweed:

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Originally posted by elinterventor01:

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Originally posted by Mr.Dittohead:

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Originally posted by Jobe:
Let the private schools take over the public schools. They’ll do it for halve the price with better results. Students would actually learn to read, write, and do math.

What private school costs less than a public school? I would guess that most privates schools are considerably more in tuition costs.

The more toney private schools usually do cost more. But, not all. A little research reveals Catholic schools cost about 25 percent less. They don't have the massive overhead administrative staff the public schools do.

Competition would be a solution. The US universities are a combination of private and public. And, are world class. Parents at failing schools should be issued vouchers worth about 75 percent of the average cost to educate their children. The vouchers could be used at private schools, including religious schools. Perhaps, parents who home school should draw vouchers valued at the cost of the books their children use. Charter schools are another option. True, 50 percent fail. That means 50 percent succeed.

The NEA might get the idea and compete to keep their jobs and power. Enough of the NEA doing a sorry job of educating their charges. Children had been kept hostage too long.

I hope you are not recommending vouchers so that the public school system will vanish and greedy educational corporations will be given our tax dollars to educate our children .

Sushi wrap,

I mean what I said and said what I mean! Suggest a course in reading comprehension! I stated that when the public schools are failing to educate their students, options should be offered. Charter schools are an alternate form of public schooling. Home schooling and religious schools are not corporate entities, either.

Private schools are an option, but only one of many. I'm not certain I desire more left wing private schools like Harvard or Yale, for that matter. As the US spends second only to Switzerland, but receives a far poor product, more money is, obviously, not the answer.

Public schools date from the founding of the republic, de Tocqueville commented on this and that attendance was mandatory. There is much to be said for an assembly of young people from all economic and ethnic groups. They learn to socialize more and it dilutes that dammed cultural diversity. The draft used to accomplish the same function as a by-product.