Tosha Tawney: I do not and would never support privatizing education.It was our Founding Fathers who created public education, because they realized that there needs to be *standardized education* for America to succeed.Our school system fails because too many private interests (like Unions) have too much power over our schools and it is always at the expense of our children....Show more
Leif Serabia: Privatizing it would greatly reduce the cost. Not only because it would open up competition, but government has a tendency to create too many administrators.
Kandi Lough: Everybody should have equal access to education. The problem with our system is we neglect it and don't invest enough of our money into it.
Lester Haschke: Annie: They won't be able to afford an education. Do you not understand this?
Porfirio Cahall: We don't need to privatize education. It's already available to anyone who can afford it. What we need is for the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! to get the hell out of the public education system, allow the states to fund their own school systems, and let the taxpayers of each state pay for the educational system in their respective states. That's the way it used to be before Jimmy Carter screwed things up.
Alecia Kaehler: It's not true that poor people could not afford education. There would be vouchers in place to assist poorer families.Consider this...poor children are currenlty being denied an education. Much of what happens at school is babysitting classes of 35 - 40 kids and crowd control. Union/Tenured teachers cannot be fired for poor performance, and the kids suffer as a result.If education were privatized, you could choose which school was best for your child. You would have control over where you spent your money. Now, you are forced to go to a specific school; for many students, this means an underperforming school with gangs and weak teachers.The private sector is accountable to its customers wh! ereas the government doesn't have to be - they just force you ! to do what they want.Saying that we don't spend enough on education is SOOO false. All we have done for 30 years is throw money at the problem, and government does what it always does: it takes the money and runs. No results at all....Show more
Carlee Tangaro: You are right, it is not about the school not teaching the kids, it is not teaching the kids the right things.All this hand holding nurturing bull**** that goes on is ridiculous. Instead of teaching kids 'you can be whatever you want' and 'you are supposed to go to college' why aren't we teaching them 'you can be whatever you want if you have the talent and work hard' and 'what kind of job do you want that does not require a $15,000 a simester tuition?'Whatever happened to teaching kids to shoot for skilled labour jobs, like machinists, mechanics, factory workers, seamstresses, etc? Far better than them giving up on college because of bad grades and shooting for being a rapper or a basketball star......Sho! w more
Kenneth Queener: I don't use public education. I think if education were privatized it would be better in some ways because it would be more competitive and kids would probably get a better education. I don't think the government is very efficient with large bureaucracies. But on the other hand, not everyone could afford it. I'm not a Christian so I wouldn't send my child to a school that taught any Christian-- or any other religious doctrine for that matter-- as though it were history or fact. I would be cool with a school that taught what different religions/cultures believed....Show more
Hunter Beech: So poor people would be able to get an education.If the tens of thousands of dollars per student per year were NOT being taxed out of the economy the poor are trying to live in a TOP-NOTCH education would be EASILY affordable just like it always was BEFORE Democrats created their system to make kids STUPID fascist drones.
Hilma Pestano: There is alr! eady a way to get a private education, private schools that you pay for! . Not everyone can afford private school though, so there you go.
Collin Barter: What can we do to improve public education we are putting more and more money into public ed. and it's like throwing money down a black hole. If money isn't the answer then what is the answer.Maybe it is time to take a good hard look at what is happening in our schools,get involved in what and how our kids are being taught and most important get the government out of our schools.
Lana Uliano: Glad you asked. Here's how it would work:There would be a mandate as to the BASICS of what would be taught (Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Civics, Economics, etc.) other than that, there would be no Federal Government interference with public education. I am not sure that I would even have the Federal Government intruding this far, I would probably leave that up to each State to decide when issuing a license to each new school to open its door.Like most things, you would have to phase th! is in. But what I would do is allow anyone who wanted to send their child to a private school would be allowed to deduct the whole expense off of their taxes. I wouldn't close all government run schools, but I would start cutting funding for more and more off those failed institutions as more people left the system. Gradually, like any successful private enterprise, there would be all kinds of entrants into the marketplace and the surplus of private sector schools would start to lower the costs of enrolling, (as well as provide a broad array of curriculum choices), This should and would cause even the poorest of parents to be able to leave the government run schools.There would be tax deductions for these private sector operations for providing assistance to low-income students in the form of tution reduction, tax credits for donations to the particular school's endowment fund, and tax deductions to businesses who sponsor children through those private sector schools. There! would be enough support available for every child to be able to go to ! these types of schools (so even the children of irresponsible welfare recipients would be able to afford this type of education)You would be able to lower costs because you wouldn't be required to have union teachers in every classroom. I am a great believer that if an instructor can teach US Air Force pilots how to fly fighter jets, he is probably more than qualified to teach high school science, but in the government run school system if you don't have that union card, you ain't getting the job. You would also increase the quality when you got rid of the union because when you found an incompetent, lazy teacher, you could fire them.Your property taxes and income taxes would (should ) be lowered because there would be no more need for government revenue to fund the present failed system.You will NEVER be able to improve government run education because of union control and government meddling. My plan would work and would be less expensive.I have given this subject a lot o! f thought and I know it would work....Show more
Len Dalba: so they can get an education instead of a socialist indoctrination.
Filiberto Ranalli: Nobody is suggesting that people be forced to pay for education. We simply want it taken out of the hands of the federal government. Most of us (and I'm one of them), would gladly pay school taxes, provided it's taken out of the hands of our federal government, and either privatized or turned over to the individual states. Since the development of The Department of Education, our schools have gone downhill....Show more
Irving Jordahl: This reminds me of the song that starts off, "Now it begins..."This is the next-on-the-agenda psycho-"Christian"-cult's (Sharlet, 2008, 2010) propaganda strategy---the theocratic-coup-minded D.C.-based The Family/YWAM cult that has total control of the Republican party. Dupe minions or unsuspecting pawns to begin the lie, name the target (i.e., public education), start the smear! , push the plan...and then repeat, get other minions to repeat, and slo! wly but ruthlessly bring the nefarious idea into the mainsteam media where lobbyist-funded propaganda and lucrative special-interest ad buys for these news outlets controls the direction the discussion takes, and the horrific idea of privatizing our public education to push a hard-core pentecostal religious-extreme agenda, is suddenly being treated by news outlets as "something to consider"...NOT! You are correct to criticize this movement.Read Goldberg (2006), and you will begin to see why this whole "privatize education" phoniness is being introduced. I agree with you that the Republicans' push to privatize not just education but everything within their grasp is a huge mistake! The Bush/Quayle and the Bush/Cheney administrations both tried to get their greedy little hands on the VA medical system, too, and our service at these facilities plummetted---remember Walter Reed Hospital? This push began in the 1980s, but came to a diabolical "head" in the 1990s, when far-rig! ht-wing Heritage Foundation's Paul Weyrich ("Moral Majority" kook extremist) joined forces with hissy-snake extremist and nutjob Pat Robertson, media mogul right-winger and foreigner Rupert Murdoch, Richard Mellon-Scaife, et al. hooked up with Washington D.C.'s dangerous right-wing cult The Family (Sharlet, 2004), chose self-loathing Newt Gingrich as their "talking head"---told you, diabolical---and decided to take over the government from inside the political system in order to have a THEOCRATIC (one-pentecostal-religion-only) COUP that began with HOME-SCHOOLING using literal interpretation of scripture and starting "in infancy" (brainwashing, in other words). "Run for local offices," these mind-controlled minions are taught. "Get on local school boards and push "abstinence only," and no evolution!" The DUMBING DOWN of America's school children is what will occur if these idiots on the right-wing side get their way. We've already fallen to 14th place in the world on sc! ience and math, thanks to Republicans....Show more
Ilana Gaster: ! in reverse order, How do we improve public education? The last thirty years shows that the more money we spend and the more we force the govt into the private homes the dumber Johnnie gets. Cut off the federal dept of education. The declines make for an amazing comparison. Give it back to the states. Let them try different styles and move the kids or try different things. The govt has ensured that the schools can not function so people are yanking their kids from the sinking ships....Show more
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