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Old 01-15-2004, 05:54 PM   #18 (permalink)
Ustwo
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Originally posted by Superbelt
The government spends more on the poor kids, yeah. But the average per kid is 1,100. You start leveraging that money and you either have to raise taxes, or most kids end up with little to nothing. What the government can give to americas children to go to private schools will not cover their educational costs and most americans will be stuck in some of the worst schools that have ever been in america. Unless of course you want to raise taxes dramatically?
Do it your way and the poor will be stuck in a pit they can't get out of in a fully free market system.
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This is more than three times the average of $8,163 per pupil spent by districts that the New York Department of Education considers similar to Bridgehampton, and more than three and a half times the $6,675 spent by the average New York state public school.
You use your 'facts' and I use mine. I assume you are talking federal dollars, which is pointless, I want a TOTAL voucher, state and federal. The amount spent per student is on par with private, or even more in cases BUT it gives less.

I once had a public school student as a patient of mine, smart girl. She was of Mexican decent and long story short I asked her a few questions. I asked her if she knew what political party Lincoln was in, no idea. So I ask her who was the president of the US (2002) she didn't know. Who was the last president? No clue. I told her who the president was and asked if she knew who his father was, no idea. I wanted to give her an out, this was a SMART girl, so I asked if she was from Mexico, and no she was born and raised in the US. Well this girl was a senior, and that means she had recently taken the government mandated US constitution test. Now I asked how she passed the test, she said the teachers gave them the answers ahead of time. THANKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS another informed voter created.

If you think private schools will do worse then the crap I've seen, you are not a very bright man.
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