US Education Reform

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TheRealMafoo said:

hahah, read your post properly? Read my post properly. In my system, the best schools will be in poor areas. No one has to drive from a poor area to take there kids to schools.

You have no clue what my system even talked about. Every point you make is not an argument against my system. It's like to think I am only for rich people or something, so you didn't read it and just complained about how I am being cruel to poor people.

And you have an odd definition of cost effective.

Lastly, where every post you have here arguing against my thread is talking about the poor. Where in my system do the poor pay anything?

One should also note that, under your system, the whole goal is to eliminate poverty through good education...If someone came out of such a system that truly sought to give them the best education possible, then it'd be their own fault for coming out of the system and leading a life of poverty....

Knowledge is tied to wealth in any economy. Where there is illiteracy, high school dropouts, and low test scores, there is a greater gap in income distribution (GINI index), and less income. Thing with America is, minority education (Blacks, Hispanics) skews the entire education system....Education levels among European & Asians are at equivilent levels in their respective countries, while hispanics and blacks reduce the median to lower rates.

So how do you make it more fair for the blacks & hispanics, and bring in true equality? Not through government schools. You do it by giving the consumer - the minority, and the majority - the right to choose their education. We are commiting an atrocity on the level of the pre-civil rights oppression by forcing minorities to go to schools in their district(s) that are over-burdened, under-funded, and under-staffed, with incompotent teachers. Freedom means more competition, and more competition means more choices, so they are allowed to fight for a better education.