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Superbelt · 01-15-2004, 02:52 PM

No actually. But please tell me why you think schools are performing below standards? Especially considering all they have to deal with.

Test scores have been rising in all areas since the 1970's.
Science is the only standardized sticking point for the United States.

Americas public school children are increasingly made up of a larger percentage of poor, single parent, and foreign born with English as a second language. That is a tremendous hurdle to overcome for public schools.
Minority percentages have increased from 20 to 40% since the 1970's. Minority dropout rates have decreased and the gap between minority and white test scores are closing.
Plus public school serve students with learning and physical disabilities. Something your average private school doesn't do. They leave that to the specialty schools, which cost a great deal of money.

Private schools perform better, but only because the public schools are handicapped.

Most parents who send their kids to private school do so because they are involved in their kids life and is trying to give them the best education they can afford. Down to the public schools, they take everyone. Private schools don't have to divert funds to teach the special needs kids. This includes the sucicidals, emotionally disturbed, physically and mentally disabled.
Private schools can kick out kids who aren't up to their educational standards, a public school can't.

Making education completely private is not going to help the poor americans. The good schools will cost out of a familys means, and they will be stuck with sub-par or worse.
You want to take the 7500 ish and give it to each student to pick the school of his choice? How you going to do that? 7500 is private costs. The public share is much less than that.

Public schools do work, they tremendously help americans who can't afford an education themselves. It does need some reform though to cut out some of the bureaucracy.
And maybe we should cut out the undesirables, the retarded, disturbed, disabled, and underperformers. You know, make the playing field level. We could easily get the schools up to private standards that way, and do it cheaper.

01-15-2004, 02:52 PM	#7 (permalink)
Superbelt This vexes me. I am terribly vexed. Location: Grantville, Pa	No actually. But please tell me why you think schools are performing below standards? Especially considering all they have to deal with. Test scores have been rising in all areas since the 1970's. Science is the only standardized sticking point for the United States. Americas public school children are increasingly made up of a larger percentage of poor, single parent, and foreign born with English as a second language. That is a tremendous hurdle to overcome for public schools. Minority percentages have increased from 20 to 40% since the 1970's. Minority dropout rates have decreased and the gap between minority and white test scores are closing. Plus public school serve students with learning and physical disabilities. Something your average private school doesn't do. They leave that to the specialty schools, which cost a great deal of money. Private schools perform better, but only because the public schools are handicapped. Most parents who send their kids to private school do so because they are involved in their kids life and is trying to give them the best education they can afford. Down to the public schools, they take everyone. Private schools don't have to divert funds to teach the special needs kids. This includes the sucicidals, emotionally disturbed, physically and mentally disabled. Private schools can kick out kids who aren't up to their educational standards, a public school can't. Making education completely private is not going to help the poor americans. The good schools will cost out of a familys means, and they will be stuck with sub-par or worse. You want to take the 7500 ish and give it to each student to pick the school of his choice? How you going to do that? 7500 is private costs. The public share is much less than that. Public schools do work, they tremendously help americans who can't afford an education themselves. It does need some reform though to cut out some of the bureaucracy. And maybe we should cut out the undesirables, the retarded, disturbed, disabled, and underperformers. You know, make the playing field level. We could easily get the schools up to private standards that way, and do it cheaper.