| sapphi_snake said: The ideea is that every public institution should offer a certain standard of education. I'm not sure this will lead to a better situation. Won't the schools that are worse off now, become even worse in the future? And wouldn't the kids that end up stuck going there have it even worse? Not all parents can send their kids to schools on the other side of town. Plus, how will schools accept students? What will be the criteria? At the end of the day the Government should make sure that all public institutions opperate at a certain standard, and that all kids can get a good education. As for the tax thing, you may never need the police, but you still pay taxes taht go to them.It's the same thign with public education. |
They are supposed to offer a certain standard. That doesn't quite work out, though. The issue is that teachers are coerced to push through kids that aren't at proper levels of education, as they fear they will get fired, or funding pulled from the school. The idea of a voucher system is that if a school operates at a level that is grossly incompotent, then parents have an incentive to pull their kids out of that school and go elsewhere. If private schools are allowed to accept the kids, then these parents may not have to send their kids to school further than they do.,
Again, the problem is that the government is *supposed* to ensure that all public institutions are great and have a standard, but in general, that standard is circumvented because of fear of layoffs, firings, and other such things.
I don't have a problem paying public money to education. My problem is what I get for it. I have a problem that there are better schools out there in my area, yet I have to pay only for the crappy ones. If I want the good ones, I have to pay twice as much. Is that really fair? I would prefer to pay once, and have the best education possible for my kids.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
