School vouchers come in many forms, but all of them would provide parents with money to spend on the schools of their choice. We all want to provide our children with the best education possible -- but are voucher programs tools of change or misguided panaceas?
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Americans Shouldn’t Be Required to Finance Private Schools
- From AUSCS
By Americans United
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Why would the government pay to privatize Education?
Capitalist sentiments in favor of vouchers are misplaced. Educational consumers have every choice in their child's education - every choice that they can afford, that is. If your city's bus system was wholly unsatisfactory, they would hardly reimburse the purchase of a personal vehicle - you should be grateful to have access to the bus in the first place! If a family/parent commands enough capital to send their child to a private educational institute, that is their choice, but the government should not be giving money from their ALL TO SLIM education budget to private enterprises in the same field.
- PrometheusUnborn August 2, 2008 5:14PM
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Get real!
Currently, public schools that FAIL to handle a child's need, give scholarships to the child to pay for a private school of the parent's choice. Hmmm...Taxpayers are all ready paying for private schools. Unless the child being failed is gifted. The public school system won't give the intellegent child the scholarship. Go figure.
The voucher system would be issued per each child's percentage of the taxes collected for education. Then the parents would choose which school received this money. Gee. The concept of earning a paycheck might just be what this country needs to fix a failing system.
- Laughing at you September 18, 2008 9:08AM
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Americans Shouldn’t Be Required to Finance...
You had your title right, but it should be a lot broader.
Americans shouldn't be required to finance...most everything that the current bloated government spends money on. Americans should be able to keep their money instead of having it taken away so they can make their own decisions about where to spend it, including expenditures on education for their children.
Americans need to stop with this pervasive attitude of entitlement and pay for the things they personally desire. In order for that to happen, though, the American government need to stop stealing from its people.
- h3h
November 12, 2008 9:38AM
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Education is a personal desire?
I must've missed the memo on that one while I was out paving the road that I so desire. But it could've been due to one of those rolling black outs that Engone produced, too. How long ago did you send that out?
- SocialistBetty
January 1, 2009 12:48AM
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..oi
i want to mention your religious nature in your anti-'religious' stance. religion here being a word you can mold and bend to whatever you, (AU, athiests unitied?) wish it to be. that is more or less your religion.
- jxzac April 2, 2009 2:19AM
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I agree America should not flip the bill for my choice
I choose to home school because I have lost all confidence in the government ran school system and those in charge of the students. One reason, among too many to list is this:
The book, "DUMBING US DOWN" by John Taylor Gatto.
Praise God a teacher with Hutzpah!In the section"about the author" I liked these commments:
Quote. The trouble was that the unlikeliest kids kept demonstrating to me at random moments so many of the hallmarks of human excellence-insight, wisdom, justice, resourcefulness, courage, origninality-that I became confused. end quote. Trouble is John that is how God works, in the most unlikeliest of people! And a corrupt system with bad testing could not appreciate differences even though they hypocritically call for tolerance.
Quote. But once loose, the idea could imperil the central assumptions which allow the institutional school to sustain itself, such as the false assumption that it is difficult to learn to read, or that kids resist learning, and many more. Indeed, the very stability of our ecomonjy is threatened by any form of education that might change the nature of the human product schools now turn out: The economy school children currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained, for example, to think critically.end quote. Wow, that is the crux of this whole book. Children as products of this countries economic system ,as robotic machines ,to keep us afloat instead of human beings with a spirit that is already preordained to serve God not man!!!
The whole chapter 1 titled, " The seven-lesson schoolteacher. Those seven lessons being taught our children every school year in every public school are the following; The public school teaches confusion, class position, indifference, emotional dependency, intellectual dependency, provisional self-esteem, one cant hide.end quote. Page 13 of this chapter was good as well as pages 17-19.
Chapter 2 titled, The Psychopathic school" darn near made me cry it was so dead on! I marked pages 20 -28 broke my heart. I know that I am doing the right thing in homeschooling ! Thanks for confirming it. Quote: The children I teach are indifferent....The children I teach have almost no curiosity.....The children I teach have a poor sense of the future, of how tomorrow is inexplicably linked to today, The children I teach are ahistorical...The children I teach are cruell to each other, they lack compassion for misfortune, they laugh at weakness, they have contempt for people whose need for help shows too plainly.... The children I teach are uneasy with intimacy or candor....The children I teach are materialistic...The chidren I teach are dependent, passive and timid. End quote. Thank you for proving that public schools are breeding more menices to society everyday.Sad but factual!
Page 59 par 3 mid par states,...while the education administered ( by public schools) is ill regarded by everyone, the institutions right to compel its clientele to accept such dubious service is still guaranteed by the police . End quote If you read what Yuba City, Califoria school board recently passed it proves you right. They passed a law saying if a child, a child mind you,is found not in school they will be arrested and the parents fined. THIS IS NOT MY AMERICA AND I WONT PUT UP WITH IT.
Page 61 par 2 quote, " Why, then ,are we locking kids up in an involuntary network with strangers for twelve years? end quote. Strangers is good but may I add some are very strange, even criminal. Why indeed?
Page 79 Quote, " This catches a peice of whats wrong with compulsory schols as large as New England towns, schools that dont allow any choice of curricula, philosophy, or companions." end quote.
Page 91 par 1 in discussing the institition of schools you say quote, " In the most literal sense thy are impossible to reform because they have ceased to be human, having been transformed into abstract structures of superb efficiency, independent of lasting human control survival mechanisms. This is not a devil you can wrestle with as Daniel Webster did with Old Scratch, but one thtat has to be starved to death by depriving it of victims" end quote. I get it! TAKE YOU KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL NOW!!!!
- Hope7
July 16, 2009 9:55AM
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