Maggie's Farm

School choice is the future for enlightened states who approve of financing vouchers for parent/student choice rather than the continual financing of static monopolies. They can even incorporate technical skills for those who do not want college and individual schools can even set up mentoring opportunities with business or labor organizations. Outcomes can be monitored to better measure knowledge and skills that are learned. The one size fits all public school is obsolete.

If every student (public school-private school-parochial school-or tech school) gets the same amount, per student, in an educational voucher, then funding will not be a problem. States fund on a per pupil basis now and can carry that forward to the new voucher program. As competition spurs pricing competition, it is likely to leave more money available for students rather than funding ever more employees per student. Public education, K through university, has become bloated with employees.

Considering that the wealthy parents pay a hell of a lot more in state taxes tends to negate any jealousy I would have toward that benefit. I know plenty of parents that send their kids to parochial schools which charge less than the state per pupil allowance. The next problem of the poor and minority is that they need to show up and they need to behave while in school just as everyone else is expected to do. The only systemic bias I see in the schools is the administration and teachers who promote all the latest garbage on race, sex, gay, tranny, earth day, and environmental propaganda. We don't want YOUR propaganda.

No. I don't. Thats how education functioned before the civil war. It was primarily operated by churches. No reason that wouldn't work now.

The poor do not attend church?

What is funny about your comment is that a couple of decades back even Ted Kennedy made a critical comment on Massachusetts education. He acknowledged that the rate of literacy was higher before the civil war than at the current time.

Your solution is throwing more money at it. Thats been done and doesn't work. It needs competition and it needs the government out of the education decision making. Let the state fund the student and NOT the institution.

Even when Minnesota operated country schools there were always alternate ways to pay for school. Someone cut wood to heat the school over the winter. Some did maintenance on the school itself. The grounds were kept up. My mother and even my wife attended country school and my wife holds a BA degree.

Your systemic bias to education is that it MUST be government and it MUST be controlled.

Go argue with Ted... those were Teds words. I did say it was Massachusetts literacy if that helps you.

And what is the black literacy rate in blue city schools? What you avoid admitting is that a lot of the difference is CULTURE. They have to show up. Parents have to get them there. All the money in the world does not change that.

Eastern states may have had public schools prior to the civil war but even Minnesota only became a state in 1858. Nearly all schooling was through parochial schools.

The only systemic bias is that the failures readily show up in public schooling regardless of funding levels. We want out of government run schools and government run propaganda. More and more states are finding this out and it helps rid us of the monopoly teacher labor unions. Fund the student and skip the propagandists.

Don't believe everything that z quotes. indyjonesouthere

Massachusetts has had parochial school for longer so your monopoly public school position is unsupported. Don't forget the original settlers.

I addressed the disparities in education and the unequal outcomes... you simply don't like them.

There will be public paid education... just not public run propaganda operated as a monopoly. You simply cannot accept losing control of education. It has such great propaganda value.