Race/Class/Gender/etc. Do they still matter?

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Kasz216 said:

mrstickball said:

...And its for the reasons I've been preaching to Sapphi's deaf ears.

In a market system, bad schools fail. If a Catholic school provides a horrible education, no one will send their kids there, and it dies. With a public school, it usually gets more and more public funding to fix the problem, despite the problems never getting fixed.

The problem is that you can rarely emulate private school successes, because they don't have teachers unions, and have a much more flexible system for providing education to students.

Well paritally.  I mean Catholic Schools do outperform regular private schools, who in turn outperfrom Charter and Magnet schools, which outperform  normal Public schools.

Holy shit though.  I live in Las Vegas now....

Clark county school district?  Graduates 47% of it's children.

Baically you HAVE to pay for your kids to go to a private school or magnet or charter school.

And thats why I think the voucher system is much needed. If you have abysmal school districts like those in Vegas, Detroit, or Cleveland and the only way to get an education is to spend money on private school, then why can't the government take the money it was spending on your child's education in a public school, and transfer the dollar to a private school?

Again, the example I give is Cornerstone in Detroit. They are servicing poorer kids than the public schools are. Yet despite that, they are graduating over 90% of their kids with most going to college (Detroit's public median is 33-35%), and they spend less per pupil than Detroit does by about $3,000 per student per year. Why can't we save money by teaching our kids better? Its a crazy frakked up thing to keep spending money on what doesn't work.