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Quote by: another day  I don't think you've visited a place called reality lately...
Kids need to go to the school closest to them, so they can take the bus or walk usually. Not all parents are available to cart their children off fifty miles to some special school that fits their bill...
Moreover, simple economics dictate that the best schools will pop up in the wealthier areas while the poor areas will have crappy schools. The poor kids end up going to the crappy schools, and the rich kids end up going to the good schools and the cycle of poverty and class-gap widens.
This already happens to some extent with publicly funded schools but it would get out of control if they were privatized.
Some things just aren't suited to the capitalist system.
As for the drug thing, no. I think school should leave the "socialization" out of their curriculum. |
Most people live in cities or suburbs, where it’s hardly 50 miles between schools. I grew up in the country and I still had several high schools to choose from that could bus from my house.
There could still be welfare and public schools for the very poor. Or welfare that puts them in less expensive private schools, perhaps run by charities or churches. They could do a better job than the government.
Anyways, it wouldn’t be any worse for the poor than it is now! There’s no sense holding everyone else back from getting a better education just to try to keep things ‘fair’. The majority getting a better education benefits
everyone in the end - what do stupid people ever accomplish??
If everyone is better educated maybe we could start ending poverty, and not voting in people like Bush.