oh deadcode, i suppose you want us to abolish public schools instead of improving them....

reading your threads is very disheartening.

lol@how dumb chase made dead sound

@Boogy;

Absolutely; but I wouldn't abolish public schools outright. I would just allow parents to use their tax dollars for private schools or public schools. Meaning that parents would have the choice of using their portion of the tax dollars to pay for a school of their choosing.

This would allows those of you that want public schools to go to public school and those of you who want private schools to go to private schools. Considering private schools educate better; I believe that most people would probably choose the private ones; but I'd leave the public option around to allow the market to decide.

how disturbing

Consider yourself disturbed then o_O

They have to cheat so their students pass the test? How about teaching the students instead, with discipline and drill.

Or is this because it's a school in Atlanta? I remember going there back in the 90s, it was Coke, Olympics, and Black people.

I don't think blind experimentation is the way to do it dead. I think charter schools should receive public funding if they earn it but that's besides the point. We need to emulate a system of education that works, originally our educational system was based on a European model. Where we went awry I don't know but we I think we need to scrap what we have an base a new system on the successes of the many European systems.

anyone have a rough estimate of how many tax dollars it takes to send one kid through school?

if you were to change the system such that your tax dollars can go towards a private school, would people-without-kids be released from taxes for education since they wouldnt have a direct benefit? sorry, im confusing myself.

Sam I have to chime in here for just a moment, did the school system fail you as an individual? Did it not adequately prepare you for responsibility and being an adult?

I have to think that it's not the system ALL the time, that some of the time it can be the environment, the person, or the proctors.

Do you think if you had tried just a bit harder in school or perhaps you were pushed just a bit harder by your own motivation that you may at some point have graduated high school and gone off to college? Then maintained your work ethic JUST long enough to get a 2.0 and graduate?

Sounds like wish went to some sort of Private Quaker School that has an inferiority complex towards a neighboring institution