thereisnospoon
Gold Member
Public school is free?....Are you on crack?Here's the problem....There are hundreds of electricians in every community across the country.A friend of mine started a school many years ago. She's a smart and incredibly hard-working woman.
Anyway, I remember one of the things she told me was you never ever let the parents determine the curriculum. They would get parents, she said, who'd want to tell the teachers how to do their jobs. But even through it might make the parents unhappy, they wouldn't compromise the school to make them happy.
Professionals don't do things the way amateurs think they should be done.
If you don't like you electrician, you get another electrician. You don't stand over his shoulder and say, "Don't you think the wire should go HERE?"
Public schools are a captive market. The government tells the parents which school they must attend. There is little choice.
None of this would be necessary if educrats didn't think of things such as "outcome based education", elimination of grades, 'teaching the test', relying on standardized tests to measure student performance, politically correct based discipline codes and of course the dumbing down of public education.
Not really. The difference is you only get an electrician if you can afford it. Public school is free.
It's not a "captive market". It's a free alternative to the market.
Ok....If public schools are not a captive market, then explain your way out of these two things..
One, the school district in which one resides mandates where students must attend.
Two, all property owners in a particular school district MUST pay as part of their property taxes, funding for the district's schools.
In most cases more than half and in the case of where a friend lives in NY, 80% of his property taxes are listed on the bill as "school taxes".
Please do not bring private schools into the discussion. You know as well as I do private schools are academically and financially exclusionary.
The only alternative to public schools is home schooling. Which I might add, many more people are doing for their children because they are fed up with the politically run government schools.