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Both parents lose their jobs, and after being unable to find sources of income they become homeless after not being able to pay for their house. Even though they are not being taxed for public schools, they certainly wouldn't be able to afford a private school. Why? Because if they couldn't afford to pay to live in a home, how could they possibly pay for a child to go to a private school? I'm pretty sure the vast majority of parents would rather be able to keep a roof over their child's/children's head(s) and not afford to send them to school, rather than vice versa. |
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Had we had to pay for private schooling, I would be illiterate. >>;
Education should be federally funded, IMO.
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But, under what circumstances would both parents lose their job and can no longer find work, that was not of their own doing, short of a severe and long-lasting Depression being helped along by government over-regulation and over-taxation of businesses, such that businesses can not afford to hire or retain employees? |
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03-05-2012, 09:06 PM | #356 |
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You can't deny the kids an education because of a parent's poor financial decisions. That's wrong on so many levels.
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03-05-2012, 09:08 PM | #357 | |
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Sorry but everyone should get an education. That is why there are laws that force parents to send their kids to school. Do you really want to live in a society where (probably around) 20-30% of kids will end up not going? Maybe more? Sounds like a great way to end up as a third world country. |
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Education should not be a business. Education is for the net benefit of our society. Thus, it is most beneficial if it is made available to everyone.
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Of course there would be the elite schools, but general schooling wouldn't be impossible. Again, I support scholarships private and public for the underprivileged of society, that would further reduce the cost, or even make it free, for select, needy individuals. Furthermore, not being taxed for it, would mean parents have more money to spend on their children's education, and proper financial planning taking any extra costs into account, short of extraneous circumstances as you described, would secure education for the vast majority of individuals. Japan does it as well for requiring tuition for Middle and High Schools, with only elementary grades being fully publicly funded (i.e. "Free") I can't see why a similar system can't work in other places. Your logic being? |
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Private schools are not required to offer special education services, for one.
Economically, schools only in the private sector would cause a pretty large loss of jobs. You don't have to be certified to teach in a private school. You just have to be able to teach the subject to the extent that the organization sees fit. This means that those most qualified to teach may not necessarily get jobs. Also, education in the private sector would seriously harm the secularized school environment. Students would not have to be treated equally or anything of the like, and any beliefs could be advocated by the teachers. Government regulation is necessary to provide standards for the schools.
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Again, the cost of education would drop drastically, if government would cease regulating it and mandating they offer certain services. Again, The Japanese have a semi-private school system (requiring tuition) for Middle and High schools, and it's working perfectly fine for them. I really don't see how your doom and gloom prophecies will come to pass by moving to a private system. So you support turning Universities over to the national government's control as well then? I suppose you think every person is entitled to the very very best education as well, both k-12 and higher learning, no? For absolutely "Free"? |
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You're putting words into my mouth. There are community colleges that are very low cost for that. There are also many state colleges that offer generous financial aid to in-state residents. There are public universities and private universities for a reason. Just as there are public schools and private schools. Community college is available to everyone. And is VERY affordable.
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And parents are already allowed to Homeschool their children. I see no reason to cease that privilege. Private schools may not be required, but I can assure you, some will anyway. One person may even found a purely special education school, for providing the best of Special education to special needs children. Quote:
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You have a point, there are public and private universities. But why would financial aid not also apply to non-university private schools? I support the parent's right to choose which school to send their kids too. But Public education dominates everything at the k-12 level. Short of finding some private school somewhere far away and paying a large amount, parents have little choice between homeschooling and the nearest public school. Maybe there could be a happy middle ground, but I support more for private education. And fewer public schools means less need for taxes to support them, thus reducing the tax burden on everyone. |
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Of course, aliteracy and cultural education theory would disagree with all of our postulating, but in my opinion we're just not as good at getting people to learn as we were. Part of this is the Dept. of Education, but the real reason is that education has become homogeneous with the installment of federal education standards. According to the government department of education, we all apparently learn the same way, which as anyone can tell you is not at all true. The No Child Left Behind effort (Bush administration, before you claim liberal-minded brainwashing) failed dismally in attempting to impose benchmark standards and set the country up to par with the rest of the world. Education? It should be Public. Privatized education increases the already huge income disparity and will place us nicely on the brink of viva la revolution, but national education standards obviously don't work - we need a limited number of powerful entities which are able to focus their efforts onto their own divisions and are in constant competition with each other in an American-style capitalist race to be on top. Hmm. What's a system that has all of the spending power of the federal government and all of the competitive atmosphere of the private sector? I'll give you a hint; number 10.
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>aliteracy
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It's unfeasible to even consider 'making things the way they were at the time of founding'. Times have changed. Principles can remain, but implementing ideas and policies from a generation over 200 years in the past is dangerous and would break the country completely.
Also I just want to say, as being potentially one of the only people here who can speak from experience, I attended (religious) private schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade, and it was an utter waste of money for my parents. Having reflected on all of my education, primarily in high school, I would have almost certainly been better off in a public school. But lets be honest here, being as how my mother has a very similar outlook to you, the truth lies not in your defenses of why you want a new schooling system, but in what they teach. You and I both know by private you really mean religious and capitalism at it's best, right? Because public schools don't teach the word of God or deem it offensive, right? Maybe I shouldn't be making such assumptions, but I've heard this reasoning one too many times.
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I think that higher education should be free to the qualified. It's the way the Germans do it, and their system is pretty fucking awesome. The Australian system is superior to the US one as well, as the government pays for your education for you, but they take it back out of your paycheck bit by bit once you get a job that pays above a certain wage- this way university students aren't crippled by a mountain of debt immediately out of school.
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Then would you be so kind as to tell me why regulation is NOT raising the cost of [higher] education? (Have to specify higher education as, it's the only one that has private entities)
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Times have changed, and there are new things to address, but the old ways certainly are not bad ways. Principles such as freedom and liberty, limited government, free markets, separation of powers, sovereignty of the people, by the people, and the policies that accompanied them back then, are just as valid as now. We make a mistake when we think "New = Better," on the contrary, it's most often not the case. The only think that would brake this country would be things poorly implemented or intentionally designed to brake it. Quote:
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No, my worry is Public education, being run by government, make it easy for government to brainwash with propaganda, if it decided it wanted to, to the detriment of the citizens, possibly to the persuasion of them to give up their liberties. That's my true reason, but beyond that, I believe everything should be done in the private sector, and not in the public, save those duties government was given. One because the Central Government doesn't have authority to do otherwise, and two, because it's more efficient, and keeps government from having control over people. |
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? This isn't 1984, unownmew, many of my high school teachers publicly stated their disdain for the government. Public school is not a brainwashing tool for the government, and in fact, it has actually taught me to question whether the government is right in their actions.
And your point about druggies apply to private schools as well, not just public.
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You forget that mew hasn't a clue what 1984 is or how it relates to today.
Also mew, I'm willing to bet the bullying and drug dealing at my PRIVATE schools were worse than your public.
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