greg334
Veteran Expediter
OVM,
The cost of education has been purposely inflated and a system that is dependent on more of the staff to "support" the teachers than it is actually teaching.
In smaller communities, they have a big advantage if they are in control of their education system, a lot like home schooling but on a community level which seemed to work for 90 years before 'reforms' of the 60's took place.
Smaller communities can control their costs by being more flexible with a smaller group of students, which can't be done in larger city schools. The other thing is if home schoolers produce rather "gifted" students who seem to be equal to the rest of the world, then striving for a community school system with the home schooling flavor could be reality in these small rural communities.
BUT the real problem with equalization is simple - it has **** up the public school system to the point that a rural school getting $7500 per student compared to an inner city school getting $14,500 per student, the rural student is actually better educated and fairs better outside the class room.
I would like to see an end to public schools as we have them - the student follows the money. I would like to see us introduce a system similar to France's education system - the money follows the student. The improvements after the shake up of the entire system will be realized within 4 years because it will force the ripping down of the district walls as competition is introduced while forcing the system to provide a better education.
But again the parents and students do not have a say - the teachers union and the school administrators do.
Did you know that the level of education in places like India are still better than a lot of our public schools?
Did you also know that they are finally realizing that the student may not be able to go to college and some schools are trying to identify those students to prepare them for a lower class of work, like manufacturing jobs?
End the abuse, End Public Schools.
The cost of education has been purposely inflated and a system that is dependent on more of the staff to "support" the teachers than it is actually teaching.
In smaller communities, they have a big advantage if they are in control of their education system, a lot like home schooling but on a community level which seemed to work for 90 years before 'reforms' of the 60's took place.
Smaller communities can control their costs by being more flexible with a smaller group of students, which can't be done in larger city schools. The other thing is if home schoolers produce rather "gifted" students who seem to be equal to the rest of the world, then striving for a community school system with the home schooling flavor could be reality in these small rural communities.
BUT the real problem with equalization is simple - it has **** up the public school system to the point that a rural school getting $7500 per student compared to an inner city school getting $14,500 per student, the rural student is actually better educated and fairs better outside the class room.
I would like to see an end to public schools as we have them - the student follows the money. I would like to see us introduce a system similar to France's education system - the money follows the student. The improvements after the shake up of the entire system will be realized within 4 years because it will force the ripping down of the district walls as competition is introduced while forcing the system to provide a better education.
But again the parents and students do not have a say - the teachers union and the school administrators do.
Did you know that the level of education in places like India are still better than a lot of our public schools?
Did you also know that they are finally realizing that the student may not be able to go to college and some schools are trying to identify those students to prepare them for a lower class of work, like manufacturing jobs?
End the abuse, End Public Schools.
