Subj : Re: FAILURE
To   : Tracker1
From : Sam Alexander
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 02:18 pm

  Re: Re: FAILURE
  By: Tracker1 to Finnigann on Fri Sep 30 2005 12:44 pm

 > Finnigann wrote:
 > >> Pouring more money into a failing system is not the answer.  Some of
 > >> the highest funded schools continually rate at the bottom of the scale.
 > >>  The problem is the schools are not being held accountable for the
 > >> results they produce.  If, however, it became a private enterprise,
 > >> they would either produce, or go out of business and someone else would
 > >> fill their shoes.
 > >
 > > If they are as regulated as Public schools... you might have something. Bu
 > > they are not and can't function as well as public schools AND turn a profi
 > >
 > > I think we have been down this road before.
 > 
 > Okay, this is utter crap.. there are plenty of private schools that do *WAY*
 > better then public schools... for that matter colleges are jointly funded,
 > public and private, and compete very well... people tend to care more when
 > it's their money on the table... that aside, I think it is a civic
 > responsibility to have public education.  That doesn't mean it needs to be
 > controlled by a bureaucracy.

Something else to question is what's the guage for a successful school?  
Graduation rate, literacy rate of graduates, percent of graduates who goto 
college?  My fiancee works for a local private school with 100% on all three 
of these, but it's almost $8K/year to send a kid there.  If I were a parent 
who lived in a sub-par school district paying taxes that went to that 
sub-par school, and I opted to send my kids to private school, I say give me 
a cut on the taxes.

Something else along these lines and a hot debate in my local area is what 
they call the Robinhood Law (or something like that) where they take money 
from the richer school districts and give it to the poorer ones.  I'm 
totally not in agreement with that.

Sam

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