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Torillian on 02 August 2017
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teamsilent13 said:
sethnintendo said:

Like it or not public schools exist off tax payer money.  Private schools may have a disadvantage in funding regard but they will always have their followers of their beliefs to attempt to prop their school up. Why should I fund a religious school with my tax payer money?

Oh and not all school districts are failures in USA.  I live in a school district that is regarded pretty highly.  Sure there are a few problem schools in the district but most are top performers.

I believe Thomas Jefferson wanted to completely decentralize the school system. Here is my source: https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/excursions/thomas-jefferson-public-education-part-1

Off topic, but I am sick of seperation of church and state being meant that our founders were anti religious to the modern liberal standards. We only removed Bible reading in schools in the 1950s or 60s which made things more secular than it ever was before. I am not saying to bring it back, but it appears even the non-religious Jefferson supported it: http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/arg6.htm. Old America wasn't super atheist or anything. Jefferson was probably only 1 of 3 out of 56 that signed the constitution that wasn't Chrisitan. Although he did write it.

I would prefer to lower taxes across the board...far more than the Bush tax cuts. I do not believe the public school system is as important as the public library which cost our taxes far less. So for me, I would love to see a more diverse thought education system with less emphasis on public schooling. 

 

Has there been a working school system in another country where such a strategy was employed? Personally I think it's far more instructive to look at what kind of systems are working now than to worry about what the founding fathers may have wanted. My Canadian friend was amazed by the idea that the public school system was so decentralized that funding was dependent on how nice the property values are in a certain district. The Canadian system apparently uses solely student count to decide funding. Or we could look at the system in the netherlands (forget which country) in which you aren't allowed to shop around for schools, but that means all schools are built up by those that live in the district to try and help make the school as good as it can be. Maybe Japan where you go to school for much more time, or the netherlands again where you go to school much less and it's more holistic. Basically why are we trying to invent some kind of round device to help us transport heavy objects when others have already made a wheel?



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