The fact is that Parochial schools do a better job of educating kids than do public schools in almost every category.
The fact is that secular private schools do a better job of educating kids than do most parochial schools and almost all public schools.
The fact is that homeschooled kids are getting a far superior education than all the other groups.
The fact is, when our elected leaders who are using the people's money to increase their own power, prestige, influence, and personal fortunes send THEIR kids to the same public schools they force on the rest of us, THEN I might believe they give a damn about whether the public schools are doing a good job of education. Until then, our liberal friends seem unable to see that the bureaucracy is swallowing up almost all of the money with very little going to actually educate kids.
We are already presumably spending more per capita on education than almost any other country and are getting some of the worst results. That suggests we should get the Federal government out of education altogether and return the system to the local communities and school boards that once provided our school kids with a world class education on a par with or that exceeded just about everybody else.
The most frustrating thing about discvussing this with liberals is that they will not see what is, but think if we just throw more money after the bad, that will fix the problem plus any of us who oppose putting more federal funding into bad education are accused of wanting to stop educating our kids.
It's all apples and oranges
Private schools get to select their apples while public schools, by law have to educate apples, oranges, bananas and rotten tomatoes.
And yet before the Federal government and teacher's unions inserted ithemselves into public education, we still had one of if not the very best education system in the world despite all those applies, oranges, and rotten tomatoes.
That should be a huge wake up call for everybody, most especially the left. I think most on the right are quite aware of that indisputable fact.
Despite what people like Konrad would like to think, this is where logic escapes liberals. It should be brutally obvious to anyone who looks at the dynamic of the teacher, student, union relationship to understand why more money is going in while results are going down.
How can I put this simply.....A teacher's union is a TEACHER'S union. It represents teachers. It does not represent students or parents. The purpose of a teacher's union is to make things better for it's members. And really that's the only way it can work. As much as teacher unions would like to say they're for the students, they're not. They really can't be. After all most people aren't going to pay dues to be a member of a group who's purpose is to serve someone else.
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