NO, because if we privatise education at first there will be a voucher system to ensure that children can go to private schools – the same money will be spent on education, just WHERE that money goes will be up to the parent instead of the state. Then schools that are better will be chosen by far more parents, creating competitive incentives for greatness among the private schools, who will push their students to work hard and produce an astronomical leap upward in the quality of education in this country. Currently there is next to. no competition, as each school can count on funding pretty much no matter what, but switch to a voucher, and the great schools will be rewarded and the mediocre ones punished. Students and teachers will both benefit, as the private schools that do great will want to hire great teachers who demand more of a salary, and could negotiate that independently of government. This is a win-win scenario.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
The thing is, I’m not against the idea of private schools existing, and I’m honestly a fan of some charter schools and magnet schools, but I think the private area should remain as an option for experimentation, alternative paid opportunities, and perhaps even a way of making new ideas for public education to use. Public is more solid, private is more fluid, and I’m fine with both, but I don’t think private should be dominant if its success and universal access remains in question. Besides, I have severe concern about the extremely religious ones, those I have heard revolting stories about, from the kids espceically. (Don’t be a gay kid in a southern Baptist type private school, especially in WV or TX).
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Public isn't solid at all – look at the math scores, look at the horrible, far-left pseudo-history they're teaching the children, the gender ideology, the shootings, the sexual "education" in CA and WA, – I don't want any child being exposed to this, certainly not mine. Extremely religious ones are no problem at all (if you dislike what they teach, you can simply go to a DIFFERENT school, that's a key pillar of my whole program, SCHOOL CHOICE.) I don't care if it's hard to be gay in a Southern Baptist school because it's wrong to be gay, and it's a mental health condition that can be cured with therapy. The system of marriage between a man and a woman, for life, is the building block of any free society, and schools ought to teach and encourage as much.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
The problems of scores lies in the lack of actually non-factory style education. We’ve not changed the school system much in hundreds of years, and that problem isn’t because it’s public, but because it’s underfunded and lacks the reform it needs. Private education only has better grades because of large and niche amounts of funding, something that cannot viably be applied to the ENTIRE nation without government funding in the first place, coming directly from income taxes that you claim not to support. Our history subjects are not “far-left” by most every… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Did I ever say gay people existing is going to destroy society? Or are you, as with every time I explain my beliefs on marriage and sexuality, as espoused in the Bible, feeling offended and resorting to emotionalism rather than logic? And did I ever claim public schools destroyed the liberty of men and women to marry one another? No, is the answer to all those questions, you have committed the Straw Man Fallacy, attacking an argument I never made because you can't defeat the one I ACTUALLY made.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
I never said you said that, I stated that as an exaggeration claim to make a statement, my point in that is that the marriage of men and women is not harmed or prevented by the allowance of anyone of any gender marrying. You also stated that it’s the “building block of any free society” yet at no point did I CLAIM that I planned to remove or harm that building block by allowing others. I don’t plan to change the most common form of marriage, only allow addition to it because I have no right to determine what genders are allowed to marry, though age may be a different… Read more
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There would be next to no competition anyway, there’s not many schools at close proximity to one another, leading to a lack of that competition at all, and that’s a movement and often increase of taxes towards vouchers that many parents may have a harder time paying for, while when funding is uncertain, quality remains the same way, leading to a lack of trust in educational funding worse than we have it now. Private schools have a long history of “behave or you’re out”, and extreme amounts of homogeneity in their schools. Bullying remains a problem, and in order to make it work, trying to fix it would require more resources that parents would have to pay more for than simply paying for it publicly.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
There's not many schools in close coordinates to each other AS IS, but if our entire education system was privatised, as I proposed, the frequency of private schools would dramatically increase, as many buildings formerly dedicated to government teaching would be purchased by private schools and continued to be used for education. One of your problems with private schools, "behave or you're out" is what I consider one of their finest features – they keep their children under control, encourage hard work and morality, and punish troublemakers who distract the class. Can you seriously claim with a straight face that the issue of bullying is a hurdle to private education? It's horrendous in public schools and no worse in private ones.
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
That requires a drastic increase in spending, often requiring a much bigger and more powerful market for teachers, their education and payment needs drastic increase to make it functional, their college would have to be affordable, and the parents would require significant spending to make it happening, overall leading to a lot more money required, something the private education area doesn’t have, but the government does. When I said that there’s not enough schools in close proximity, I mean it as a whole, not just in one area of how it’s run. We don’t have enough schools for that, and to make them, you’d have to increase the funding for it in the first place by a measure that businesses can’t afford.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
It doesn't require any INCREASE in spending, spending will be exactly the same, the only difference is, the money will be spent by individual men and women and their families, voluntarily and with absolute freedom and goodwill, rather than being plundered from people to force them to pay for an education many don't see as worthwhile. The government, once again I shall say, cannot give you ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN it did not first STEAL from someone else or YOURSELF. By abolishing public education and correspondingly abolishing the taxes that fund it, we merely return that money to par… Read more
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Yet that doesn’t create the conditions necessary for anyone to actually afford it, and to create a competitive atmosphere, we’d need a higher concentration of schools than usual, along with much higher spending to make the teachers and new system actually work, which would cost far more in the long run. I’m personally for making the options affordable, and eliminating direct taxation makes pretty much all of your combined goals impossible to pay for without a massive shift of responsibility to the average citizen, leaving the poor less free than before to get education at all. It’s a reduction, not expansion, of freedom.
