SamuelRSmith said:
You're right that thanks to state education, those at the bottom only have a slither of a chance of making something out of their lives. Personally, I want more than that for those at the bottom, and the state has proved itself to be incapable of doing it. Let someone else have a chance. |
A totally privatized system, with no involvement of tax dollars of any sort, is going to result in a system where you have individuals on top getting all the breaks and those on the bottom getting none. Yes, it is socialisitic to some degree, but the idea is to try to make sure there is minimum standards. As it is now, in America, there is NOTHING (outside of the will of people) to come up with alternatives. People can home school, go to private schools, or public. Am I one to flat out argue against vouchers, or injecting some free market choices into educational system? No I am not. However the free markets alone aren't a fix, and there needs to be some sort of will and mandate of the people to do more.
And, very likely, and this is more of a conservative argument, far more needs to be done with societal values and involvement, to make things work better. Some of the issues faced by the American school system, no amount of money will fix. I have seen the public schools where I am, trying to do substitute teaching, and it is a train wreck. I guess having single parent households doesn't help the matter.
Anyhow, this is getting WAY beyond the original subject.
