lets face it, america has a socialist school system where there is no competition among schools to be better than anything except football. there's no motivation. teacher's unions prevent unqualified teachers from being fired, and as a result we students who don't even know what the soviet union was. only a minority can go to public schools where there is plenty of competition for the parents' money. teachers are fired when they don't perform. say what you want about brainwashing their students, at least they aren't brainwashed into depending on government for everything.
why do liberals continue to support something that has failed long ago? why not open up school districts and let the taxpayer money follow the student to whatever school he/she chooses to attend? the europeans understand this, and ironically, they allow public school competition while paying much less per student on education.
2007-08-06 03:17:03 · 12 answers · asked by blank 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
again, it's NOT how much is spent, it's HOW it's spent...
the liberals have virtually rendered the U.S. public educational system useless....
2007-08-06 03:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
To be fair, it's more about the effort one puts into his education than the educator. Our generation is fairly lazy. I attended a public school and found that many of my classmates were unmotivated, and I believe a lot of that had to do with condition of our school. I live in a resort destination area that sees a lot of tourists that own summer homes, and they don't feel the need to pay taxes here to support our schools, obviously. Aside from the tourists, the area has many elderly residents with no kids to support, and they are all the elected officials that run town meetings and make up the school board. They also don't feel like paying more to support the school. Since the building is a piece of trash, and there's hardly money to replace old editions of text books, or buy them at all, it's difficult for teachers to get their students motivated. I believe that if public schools saw more money, it would solve many of the problems we're facing much more easily than sending everyone to private schools. It's just a matter of where you put your cash, I feel that I received a good education at my high school despite it's condition because I put the effort in to make it so.
2007-08-06 03:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by linkwaker007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fear is.. and it is a valid fear.. that you then have some areas that will excel .... and others will be left with nothing.. so even fewer will have a good education because only a few schools are going to be getting all the money.
Plus, in all honesty, the biggest thing wrong with our system right now is the No Child Left Behind act.. but there are programs to counter this... get your school to become a School of the 21st Century or a Coordinated School Health school.. these are both programs that have been proven to vastly improve the functioning of public schools. And actually.. a shool can run both programs at the same time.
2007-08-06 03:23:25 · answer #3 · answered by pip 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Tsk tsk tsk to the asker. My wife's school had the highest test scores across the board in her district in west Phoenix and at her grade level, her class had the HIGHEST scores in the district. Not all public schools are bad and not all teachers are bad. My wife hates her union and votes against who they tell her (unless the vote fits her ideas). Here in Phoenix a child has the option to go to whatever school they please so long as they put in the request and can get there every day. No child left behind is a joke and most every teacher I meet (and there are many that I have met) say that program is the worst idea next to all day kindergarten.
2007-08-06 03:28:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Now, the public school system, from a student's view, is also what you make of it. For example, a kid can go to school and learn as much as they can and become an achiever or a kid can go to school and be lazy and do nothing with their lives. You have to look at performance from that standpoint as well. One thing we cannot do is to judge a school by how much money it throws at a kid since it ultimately is up to the kid whether or not they want to learn.
2007-08-06 03:22:08 · answer #5 · answered by civil_av8r 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It is my opinion that our public school system is flawed, but if a student really wants to learn, they will learn. However, I really feel that knowledge is not prized anymore. We are raising generations of kids to be fat, lazy and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. We need to change the average person's thoughts on education, not the school system.
2007-08-06 03:53:20 · answer #6 · answered by slykitty62 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And just think, this is what our health care system might be like as soon as go "universal." Check out Neal Boortz on the radio if you haven't already, (sounds like you have.)
Public education=Government Education. Not good.
2007-08-06 05:09:53 · answer #7 · answered by The Angry Elephant 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most states have schools of choice. You can go to any school in your county in Michigan as long as you apply, get accepted, and can get there every day. You can always use someone elses address to go to that school which is what everybody did before schools of choice. Sounds like they complete to me.
2007-08-06 03:57:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your solution would lead all the money into one school or another and make poorer schools poorer.
Why should there be competition between schools? Shouldn't children be taught to challenge themselves for the betterment of their own lives?
2007-08-06 03:22:16 · answer #9 · answered by Granny Gruntz 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Judging from this paragraph, you must have had a public school education.
If you didn't, you should hire a lawyer and sue.
2007-08-06 03:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋