Services do cost money, your right. In the case of education WAY more than it should and for exceptionally ****ty results.
Public education produces fine results, when you compare socieo-economic status in relation to other countries. In other words, the bigger problem is income inequality (and lack of support from far too many parents).
My children's education thank god is NOT dependent on government. They will NEVER set foot in a public school as a student.
It must be nice to be able to afford private education for your child (or even to be able to homeschool them). Unfortunately, most people cannot.
Public schools are prisons, first and foremost.
No doubt. After all, we regularly allow inmates to go home at 3 o'clock.
I understand that.
If it does happen, you can call a parent and ask.
If the parent say's everything's cool, you can request a scrip and not punish the kid.
And most schools will do that. And of the schools who do not, they will almost always inform students and parents at the beginning of the year they do not, at which point it becomes the fault of the parent/student, not the school.
It's funny that even though schools do have a zero tolerance policy for illicit drugs, schools are one of the best places to get them.
How is that funny?
Of course someone can be. Especially if those rules are arbitrary or unreasonable.
Rules against allowing illegal drugs on school campus are neither arbitrary nor unreasonable. And if you don't like the rules/laws, then you have the right to campaign against them. But to argue one should be exempt from rules simply because one doesn't like them is silly.
That may be true in your school, but it most definitely wasn't in mine. If you fought, regardless of how it started, you got ISS or suspended.
Then don't fight? Seems like a reasonable conclusion to me. I'm 28 years old, and aside from the wrestling I've done with friends, I've never once come close to being in a fight.
Well, it does. I don't necessarily have a problem with hierarchies and power, I have a problem with some of the inherent designs of the hierarchy.
You seem to have a problem with the fact there is one at all. How else could a public school be run, except in its current form? Children need structure, children CRAVE structure. They want the discipline which comes from authority. There is nothing wrong with the hierarchy itself. When problems exist, they exist with individual people, not with the structure. It's a person problem, not a system problem.
Nothing is wrong with any of those things and then again, I never specifically said those things were a problem, aside from the self defense issue.
But those things are WHY the system exists as it does. If a child gets into a fight and gets beaten badly, the school could be sued for not protecting the child. If a student brings medication to school, does not report it and suffers a serious side effect, the school could be responsible.
I never said how it should work. How have you divined how I think it should work? I do appreciate the differences in children, that's why there are problems with public ed. It's very difficult to educate 30 different kids, with 30 different learning abilities at one time.
Fair enough.
Then please provide your blueprint which works better. That way I'll be able to more intelligently discuss your ideas and how they compare with public education today.
So is it safe to assume you are OK with getting rid of the DOE?
Yes, but probably not for the same reason you want to get rid of it. By the way, you did note how well America actually does in public education, correct? Also remember that success is after removing students who attend a private school, students who usually are more motivated for educational success.
He's talking about officially institutionalizing it. We need to move away from that, not closer to it.
We need to move closer to a system where each school district is provided roughly the same amount of money per child. We cannot allow the majority of funding to exist on the local level, because some areas are obviously poorer than others. But we cannot give every school the same amount of state aid, because then schools in poorer areas have less money to spend per child.
Funding education cannot be an exact science, especially in economic downturns. But we should always strive to treat all students equally.
