| highwaystar101 said: I think a voucher system for free private education is a good idea. I strongly believe that every child has a right to free education because otherwise you are shooting yourselves in the foot. Genius strikes in random places, it can be born into anyone regardless of class so therefore if you want your population to reach their full potential it is necessary to offer all children a good education. The public education system in the USA needs an overhaul from what I can tell across the pond. I think maybe the answer isn't in more time at school or increased spending, but increasing efficiency instead. A voucher system seems like a good way to achieve this as well as a few other ways. You can keep kids in school 12 hours a day 7 days a week, but it will not increase their learning potential to a significant degree for such a high cost. An overhaul of the system is needed, look at ways of giving every person the best education possible through efficient means. It could also have the added benefit of lower costs to the tax payer too. *I'm gonna say it lol* I strongly disagree with Obama on this issue... |
Thank you. A European leftie agrees with us right-wingers on this one.
You are indeed correct that the US education system needs an entire overhaul.
The problem is that the problems are so deeply rooted, so entrenched, that it's doubtful the government-run system can be salvaged into something viable as opposed to other, better, education systems abroad. No one wants to rob kids of a free education. The issue is how good of an education is it? As it stands, it's not that great. The sad part is that more money is not helping better education. Here's a pretty damning chart of US education:
Notice that there's no correlation between spending and results? If anything, should you plug these numbers into a spreadsheet and looked for trend lines, you'd probably find the inverse is true. Of top-10 funded schools, only 30% had above a 50% graduation rate, while 7/10 had above a 50% graduation rate in the bottom 10 of metro areas and school spending.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
