frigidweirdo
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- Mar 7, 2014
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Yes, they do. I'm not talking about the right ripping the US apart here, I'm talking about partisan politics ripping the US apart, partisan left and partisan right doing everything they can to win, win, WIN. Who gives a fuck about anything else? Education? Nah, it's just a tool for winning.
Education is just one of the many things Democrats wish to fund at the cost of the taxpayer.
But we do fund education. In fact, we spend more per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world. In spite of having mediocre results, the Democrat policy is to spend even more. The definition of insanity is...............
My point was that both sides us education as a tool to "win", rather than using it as a method of improving society. The Republicans aren't better than the Democrats.
I follow politics pretty closely and I don't recall any Republican calling for more school spending. I've heard of reform, I've heard them talk about getting rid of the teachers union, but not just throwing money at the problem as a solution.
Okay, and what does this have to do with what I'm talking about?
As far as I can tell I've heard many prominent Republicans talk about school vouchers. And we've had this discussion, haven't we? Remember the one where you started harping on about choice? About how choice is the most important thing? How choice is so fucking good it could make you wet yourself? And then we spoke about electoral reform and you didn't want choice because choice isn't good, it's bad, it's so bad it'll make you wet yourself? Remember that one? I do.
The whole point of school vouchers isn't choice, it's funneling money out of education and back into the pockets of rich people who, apparently, need the money.
Now, the Republicans are talking about getting rid of school unions, not to improve education, but to make it cheaper, so they can give the money to rich people instead of teachers. Yeah. I know that one too.
Don't try and bullshit me pretending that the Republican Party in the main wants to "improve" education. yes, they want to "improve" education in their own vision, which is cheaper and doesn't provide a threat to their private school educated children.
Vouchers are given to poor people who cannot afford private school themselves. Yes, it is taking it out of the system, but putting it back into the system, just in a different location. Republicans are not "funneling" the money anywhere. The parent gets to choose which school their chid will attend, and that includes public schools.
And that's not throwing more money at the problem. Yes, getting rid of the unions would help education because tenured teachers would not have a guaranteed job as long as they show up for work in the morning. It's one of the reasons unions failed in the private sector; businesses were forced to keep bad workers employed because they had union protection. Without unions, schools would have the freedom to get rid of unproductive teachers and replace them with more productive teachers.
Except there are many cases of vouchers going mainly to private school kids.
But again, you've spoken about "choice" and I've basically said you're not interested in choice, the Republicans aren't interested in choice, and yet you're brought up the same parroting crap you brought up last time.
Yes, I agree that the unions right now are causing problems. But that doesn't mean you can just get rid of teaching unions. Teachers are real people who demand to be treated in a certain way. Get rid of the unions and they'd be on fucking minimum wage if the Republicans thought they could fucking get away with it, and you know it.
The problem isn't necessarily the unions, the problem is a system which doesn't give a fuck about education and the political parties aren't doing what they can to change that, so unions become combative and then you get the same problems in education as you get right the way through the rotten political system. But hey Ray, I'm talking to someone who likes the rotten political system.