the2real4mafol said:
mrstickball said:
the2real4mafol said:
I know it's up the parents but i don't agree with home schooling. The kid may do better in education, but they will lack vital social skills.
Anyway, out of both public and private. I prefer public schools because then everyone is actually guaranteed a fairly decent education at very low cost (it's free to go but it's funded by taxes) and so can get a decent chance at life.
I'm sorry but for a basic need like education, you shouldn't have to use your life savings just to go to a decent private school. It's not right that for a few thousand pounds a year you get a far superior education, education shouldn't be dictated by money and the free market at all, it should be there just to better a person's life . |
Wrong.
Go check some of the major cities around America. They're graduating below 50% of the kids, and require over $10,000 per student. Not every school provides a great education. Heck, in my county alone, we have huge variance. The school my wife graduated from requires about $9,000 per student in taxpayer funding, and graduates about 81% of kids. Comparatively, the one I should have gone to graduates 93% of kids, and requires only $5,500 per student in taxpayer funding.
Let me throw something crazy at you:
What if private education is cheaper than public education? Where I live, it is. You know how much our local private school costs? About $4,000 per student - lower than any nearby school. That is why many that like private education believe in vouchers - that kids have the right to education, regardless of the facility. If private schools are really better, why can't you take the money you've paid into the system and send your kids to a better place if it costs the same amount of money?
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In some possible cases, private may be cheaper but you have you to pay the lot up front, most people can't afford it. At least with public education, everyone pays for it in there taxes and thus it is less for a single person to pay. And unfortunately, whether it is private or not, the quality of education really varies between each school. Also, if your rely completely on the private sector, then there is bound to be gaps missed by them that public schools have to fill anyway.
It may be a bad stereotype, but i see private schools to be like this~http://www.etoncollege.com/Home.aspx
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...But you could apply the same taxing principles to a voucher system that allows parents to pay for private or public education, rather than be forced into one and only one choice.
I never said you had to abandon the public school system. Simply allow them to compete on a level playing field. Ensure that every student has access to a school (with public schools ensuring that there is a minimum level of education), but allow them to go to the best schools available, up to a certain amount of money.
For example, each student is issued a voucher that covers either 1 year of public education, or up to $5,000 of private education. If the public school costs $8,000 and the student goes to the private school, then the taxpayers effectively save $3,000 on that student.
