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Do you support school choice?

Do you support school choice?

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haymarket said:
Again - that is theory and the way it is suppose to be. In real life, it does not always work out that way as it can take years for a weak charter school to be exposed with data.
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I would prefer to allow the parents choice when it comes to their children's education, rather than impose a choice on them.
 
Federalist said:
School choice will afford parents (especially low income parents) better options for educating their children. They won't be stuck with whatever socialized government school happens to be provided by their community.
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They don't have to, they can go to another school the other school will gladly take them and their money. We also have four school boards that compete for students. If I wanted to I could go to school in the next town over. Schools here are funded per student by the province not through local taxes.
 
Carjosse said:
They don't have to they can go to another school the other school will gladly take them and their money. We also have four school boards that compete for students. If I wanted to I could go to school in the nest town over.
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It sounds like you have the system that people in the US are asking for.
 
Federalist said:
It sounds like you have the system that people in the US are asking for.
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Well then why don't people campaign on that? Though I have no idea how you would create competing school boards since the competing school boards are francophone.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
Absolutely. People should have a selection where they can educate their child. The only people that oppose this are statists that don't want competition between schools. Taking someone's money then forcing their kid to go to an inferior school when a better one is available is distinctly anti-liberty.
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Schools shouldn't be in the public sector in the first place.
 
Bob Blaylock said:
If I choose to buy a Ford automobile, should 20% of the purchase price go to General Motors instead of to Ford?

Does GM deserve to “win” by any other means than by offering a good enough product at a good enough price to compete honestly with Ford?
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If the local public school loses 20% of its students, to those that opt for vouchers, then the cost per public student would likely go up, since it still takes one teacher, and one classroom, to teach a class whether it contains 16 or 20 students meaning that vouchers issued at 100% of current cost would then increase the total public, per student, educational costs. To prevent that from making the taxpayers (voters) object to the voucher idea, I proposed this idea to help keep those costs from rising from a relatively small number of vouchers being issued.
 
Carjosse said:
I'm surprised you do not allow students to switch public schools, it is how it works here. I see no reason they should not be able to. What if a school does not offer a course you need?
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and yours is the model we should adopt
do not consign some kids to elite schools and others to weak schools only because of the housing their family can afford
 
Federalist said:
I believe that's exactly what they are trying to get passed.
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All I hear about is sending kids to private schools with vouchers or whatever not making public schools compete.
 
joG said:
Why that?
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What do you mean why that? I asked you a question.

You said no schools should be in the private sector, meaning you want to ban private schools and not let parents take their kids to a private school, even if the local public school is horrible. Do you hate liberty so much that you'd deny parents the ability to take their kid to a private school?
 
MaggieD said:
So. Are you the guy we should blame for crappy inner-city schools?
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You can point the finger a lot of different places on that one. Which one would you like to pick? Apathetic parents? Terrible working conditions, which means lower quality teachers? The required education commitment our society has? Inner-city flight, which was caused by cheap gas and racism/ignorance? You can even blame our economic system. Take your pick or add your own, lots of blame to go around.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
What do you mean why that? I asked you a question.

You said no schools should be in the private sector, meaning you want to ban private schools and not let parents take their kids to a private school, even if the local public school is horrible. Do you hate liberty so much that you'd deny parents the ability to take their kid to a private school?
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I had actually said the opposite. Schooling is a private good. Why would I want the government to produce it.
 
joG said:
I had actually said the opposite. Schooling is a private good. Why would I want the government to produce it.
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What do you make of the assertion that it ought to be considered as infrastructure?
 
jamesrage said:
Magnet schools

Main article: Magnet school
Magnet schools are public schools that often have a specialized function like science, technology or art. These magnet schools, unlike charter schools, are not open to all children. Much like many private schools, there are some (but not all) magnet schools that require a test to get in.
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So where do students go that don't qualify for your magnet schools ?
 
Do you support parents taking their taxes to the private schools?
do you support giving these parents even more money beyond their taxes?
do you support the lowering of already low wages in the countryside for teachers with privatization?
RabidAlpaca said:
So if a local school is abysmally poor, you would deny the rights of parents to take their kids to a private school?
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