Would you be willing to give up the public school system and go to a private school system?

Question

Not payed for by taxes, but fully paid for by the parents of children attending.

If they can't pay, no schooling until they can pay.

Chi Guy, good to 'see' ya!

Remix, I'm a teacher at a public school. And I'm all for public schooling. I think our taxes can increase our quality of life in a number of good ways.

Stupid Marxist, now that we're acqainted I'll just call you by your first name.

Answer 1

that system would work for about 20 years, the rich would get richer, the poor would get poorer, an economic depression would set in, and the unwashed masses would end up having a soviet style revolution

Answer 2

As opposed to the public schools as they are today, yes.
As for it being a disaster, it already is when 80% percent of you graduates can't do math at a 6th grade level and they can't read past an 8th grade level, really what do we have to lose. It would create a vacuum in which parents would have to start thinking about things for themselves, and that would be good for our nation right now.
Is it fair that I am forced to pay for my kids to be indoctrinated with secular humanism instead of being educated? F um.

Try Puritan New England-The religious are the reason the west is literate. India has a cast system and your statement is not true. Ireland economy like other backward country's has great growth because if you produce nothing on year and one thing the next you have a great growth %. Save your socialist crap for someone else. I will mind my children and you mind your own we are not in this together- I want nothing to do with your kind other than trade, we are not freinds we don't even like each other and socialism is not the goal, freedom is and the two don't mix.
So an education is now a "civil right" you have got to be kidding me. Schools need money, money is property, if you have a civil rigth to an education, and I have a right to property and I don't want to pay for your education which civil right superceads the other? See how rediculess this gets. You can't have a civil right that violates the civil rights of another by nesseity.

Answer 3

It is really in the best interest of the public at large that all children have some sort of basic education. Even for those who don't have children still pay taxes to support other's children. Not to get into a discussion of wealth envy, but those who didn't have much money would likely not send their kids to school at all. Of course, they would then have to stay home to care for their children and remain on welfare/food stamps/medicare. The cycle would continue for their uneducated children since they wouldn't know anything else was possible. It would still be costly for those "rich people" to have masses of uneducated citizens.

Answer 4

I went to a Private School and I do think it is better than the Public School. However, it has to be realised that most people cannot afford a private school; therefore I would not be willing to give up the public school system for a private school system.

Answer 5

Instead we should provide more money for public education while reducing the administrative and bureaucratic costs. Streamline curriculum to fit the needs of individual students. Pay teachers well that prove they make a difference. Cut the top heavy administrative waste (consolidate) and hire more counselors to help children from disadvantaged families to rise above their circumstances.

I've a feeling you work in the arena of public education ;-)

You are one of those teachers that makes a difference! I can lecture with the best of them but I really prefer to be left alone with my research.

Answer 6

No. We all have a vested interest in our schools.

Having free public education all the way through University is what created the Irish Tiger economy - and India's too.

Look to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to see what happens when leaving school to random private districts - the local religious leaders dictate what the education needs are and who is good enough to have them.

Answer 7

Where I live, I pay school taxes as well as my son's tuition for a private school. I am paying to send my son to school as well as children that attend the public schools, more or less 2 sets of tuition. It seems there should be a tax break or voucher for parents that choose private schools. Just my opinion!

Answer 8

i went to a private religious school ( Islamic ) 6.5 days a week , 12 months a year ( not in America ) Iearned 4 languages. Private school is by far the better option if you can afford it. This school was financed by donations from the community, and the parents who sent their children their. If a student was poor, he or she would still be able to attend, somehow the money would be found/raised/donated

Answer 9

I did. My father is Protestant; my mother was Catholic and all three of us kids went through 12 years of Catholic school. I taught in Catholic school for 8 years before making one of the biggest mistakes of my life and going to the public school system--where the money is. I realized after 8 hellish years, that I wouldn't send my dog to a public school in the city. I won't even let my son go to HeadStart and we live in a near suburb now. I've already abandoned the public school system and I'm even willing to work in one so that we can afford to keep my son out of them.

Answer 10

Well if you are meaning completely do away with public education well that just simply would not work.
There are too many people who faced with having to pay simply wouldnt put their kids in school as either they didn't want to pay or didn't have the money to pay.