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SciFiBoy on 27 March 2009
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TheRealMafoo said:
SciFiBoy said:
TheRealMafoo said:
SciFiBoy said:

so, your solution is to dump anyone born into a poorer family with over 100k in debt? just what every parent wants for there child, lots of debt from day 1 of there working life

 

You would pay it back at whatever rate we pay for education now.

If that's 7%, I am paying (and every one in the US) that rate for life. I never get to stop paying it.

With this system, you only pay what you would have paid anyway, but you get to stop once your burden is paid off.

Also, with a world class education, the kids of poor parents won't be poor. It's like sending them to the best private school in the country, with no downside.

yeah, that wont work, the private sector only cares about profits, they wont accept most of the poor kids who have take out loans to pay for there education, the private schools could also decide they dont want to teach art or music or history, what then? the problem is that the private sector does not have the students best intrests at heart, as for parents, unless theyre teachers, theyre unlikely to know what there child should or shouldnt learn

Your such a nut job.

First off, every parent gets a voucher for each child. It does not mater if they are poor or not. The child to the school, is 20k. They don't care how much money there parents have.

Poor people live in more concentrated area's, and tend to have more children. So schools in poor areas will have more money, they rich ones.

In capitalism, profit rules. profit is obtained by providing the best service. If you can take your child to any of 10 schools on the local area, the ones that don't provide the best education fail.

Schools will not provide the best services out of the goodness of there hearts, they will do it to attract business. It's why the US has some of the best food, stores, hotel service, etc... The consumer demands it, thus those who survive do so by providing it.

And your extremely misguided if you think parents of all incomes are not extremely interested in there child's education. Just because your poor, does not mean you don't care, or understand what your kids should learn. Stop listening to the media.

 

bold: posts that start with insults never go anywher good
italics: and that worked great for the financial sector didnt it?
underlined: its unlikely they would have expert knowledge enought to judge what there child should and shouldnt learn, some of them for example might not want there child to be taught science (if theyre like a fundementalist of some religion)

in addition, parents can hold the government to account for failings and errors, they cant hold a private school to account as the school dosent have to listen, the private sector allways has its own agenda, whats to stop schools from forcing there political or religous views on the children? whats to stop private schools giving certian people prefferential treatment? state education is the only way to go, its fair, can be held to account and is cost effective if done properly and funded by progressive taxation.