Should The U.S. scrap its public school system in favor of privatization?

Question

Look at some of the god awful liberals who post on this forum. Always crying for "universal healthcare" and other taxpayer funded freebies. What a bunch of losers!

Leftist "teachers' and unmotivated students = a disaster for america. They all know about how to "get along", but don't know their ABCs or America's rich history (except the civil rights movement).

LOVEBEN - I've done more work in a week than YOU have your whole pitiful life. NEXT!!

Answer 1

Yes they should. Coming from a respectable catholic school in Indiana to seeing the pitiful state of florida public schools, I completely agree that school should be privatized. I also think that every teacher who preaches their liberal (or conservative) point of view to our children via history or economic class should be fired and never given the opportunity to be rehired. Even at the university level. 90% of my professors are liberal idiots that spout their beliefs at me in hopes of brainwashing me into their 'enlightened' state. It almost seems like schools are becoming liberal cults. It's scary. Teaching, especially public teaching, should be completely unbiased.

Answer 2

As usual, with most of the liberal answers it becomes about class warfare.... "oh the rich will have it so much better and they will be the only ones educated"... I have news for them... THE RICH DON'T SEND THEIR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW! And why would they? We spend more per student than any other country in the world. Throwing money at the problem does not work.

It ia actually taking money away from the issue that will help. Keep reading here... right now there are many schools and teachers who are FAILING and there is no consequences for it. NONE. A deadbeat teacher can feel safe in knowing that no matter what happens, they will have a job the next year. Their whole class can be failing... and they will have a job. Name any position in the private sector where you can fail miserably year after year and still hold your job?

Now... you start to place school into the private sector and guess what? You get the result you have now with private schools. Kids actually are in a structured environment where the get and education and THEIR PARENTS ARE INVOLVED because it's their money going to that education. Someone talked about investing in something in an earlier answer... well let's not make stupid investments and lets handle them better. No one is saying to take education away from anyone... It has been proposed and SHOULD have passed to give parents the opportunity to place their kids in a school of their choosing based on how the school performes. They would recieve an education "credit" from the government to use toward the school of their choice. Schools would then be looked at for their performance and teachers would be held accountable. School Faculty would also gain back the power to drop your kid if they misbehaved or fail. Accountability would be placed on parents where it should be. Sure you may have to pay a little more to get your kid into the better schools... but isn't your kid worth that? At the very least, if you couldn't afford the best schools it would make the average schools better because there would be accountability.

Like anything, the opportunity is there if you want to make the sacrifices to get there. With the exception of love, not everything is handed to you in life... well not anything that is worth anything anyhow. You must work for it if you are going to value it... that even applies to love sometimes too.

Stop with the crutches and the excusses for everyone. Try to actually help our children by NOT just handing to them and make them work a little.... all right... I'll stop ranting now.

Answer 3

Something has to be done about the public School system because the current system we have in place is failing.
I think we should first get rid of the teachers union then they would be forced to go back to teaching.

I also think we should bring back the good old days when the trouble makers were taken out of the School and placed into one that's just for them so the kids who want to learn can.
Or they should just be expelled.

But unless something happens I seriously think we should end the public schools and make people pay for their own childrens education.
Or we could have kids learn on-line from home where they can't interfere with the education of other students and they can get the kind of education they deserve because there won't be a teachers union preventing the on-line schooling.

Schools have become way too violent and dangerous to send our kids to and the teachers have become too uncaring about doing their jobs because they know it'll take an act of Congress to fire them.

I also think that we should get a tax break if we send our children to private school because why should we have to pay taxes for public education if we're sending our kids to private?

They need to take sex education out of the School and go back to teaching educational material like they are supposed to.

My son is going to start kindergarten this year and I'm going to do everything I can to afford to take him out and place him in private as soon as possible.
If I wait too long it will be too late because the School will have ruined him and brainwashed him into becoming something other than who I raised.

Answer 4

I think we should either strengthen it or get rid of it. Strangling it a slow death only makes people confused about what is really going on.

Nearly every critic of public education who answered this question doesn't know anything about it. They just react from news stories or from 'I know someone who knew someone who...'.

The public school system is not a failure.

The fact is the public schools in wealthy areas are highly rated and send students to prestigious universities, just like private schools in wealthy areas. It is not public or private schools that makes the difference it is wealth or educational resources that make the difference.

Answer 5

Yes, the U.S. should scrap it's school system because it's not controlled by the U.S. Department of Education. Curriculum in all U.S. schools is set in Switzerland by an educational institute. The sole purpose of this organization is to indoctrinate the youth of western civilization to globalist principles and a globalist corporate agenda that will lead to a kind of world-wide, corporate-lead communism.

All that you see around you will be altered. You know, the cola commercial--I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony--that's what globalist want--consumers that are like worker robots serving corporate conglomerates that have divided the world according to production requirements. NAFTA and the Andian Trade Pact are the first steps toward this future in the Americas. Funny thing, they didn't anticipate the globalism backlash.

As far as your statement about liberals, I believe that the average U.S. citizen is middle of the road and although dwindling in numbers, middle class. All these people want to do is make a living and raise their children. They usually vote the man/woman not the party. Liberals make up about 4% of the voting public.

Don't worry about the liberals. Worry and fight for your freedoms. Fight revisionist history which is a part of globalist indoctrination. Fight to keep out Constitution and the sovereignity of our nation and the right to a free and quality education. Stand-up for what is right. Fight globalism.

Answer 6

Los Angeles public school almost destoyed my brain. I am in favor of scrapping the federal control.

Answer 7

Are you suggesting there is something wrong with our public education system?
Is it the dropout rate or the illiteracy rate that concerns you?

The more privatized ANYTHING gets, the better. Govt has nothing to lose if they fail in what they do in the long run, but private companies DO.

Answer 8

You call them losers because you disagree with them. They call you names because they disagree with you -- how does that actually address the question or resolve any of the issues?

The question has been asked in other contexts. Basically, the question comes down to whether we want to invest in anything at all -- if not health care, and not welfare, do we also scrap retirement, medicaid or as you suggest, schools?

If we are going to invest in anything, would not education be one of the best things for the future of the country?

That being said, I don't think the current model of education works well, and don't think it's very efficient in terms of time or money. But educating our children is perhaps one of the most effective investments we can make in the future of our society.

Answer 9

Great to see the Right continuing along in the same mindless way. Advocating something that is neither desirable nor practical and then supporting it with that marvelous argument "liberals are losers".

Answer 10

That was good question until the part about god awful liberals. You just don't say dumb stuff like that. No wonder people don't take you seriously. Mr. American Man SIR! I mean, Dingus.

Answer 11

I can tell you've never set foot in a college classroom in your entire life have you. Your lack of knowledge of the history of this country pretty much proves it. Privatizing our public schools would be a disaster in this country. It would mean that those without money wouldn't be able to afford education for their children. It would mean that you would be creating a class system that would divide the classes so much that you would be creating an underclass of uneducated and illiterate people with no hope of improving their lives. This is called capitalism gone amok.