Thread: stupid in america

Originally Posted by shek

Look at it from a selfish standpoint - would you rather pay a few hundred extra dollars a year for a decade or so to get more kids a better education so you don't have pay thousands a year for decades because a person wasn't in an optimal learning environment?

I'd rather not have to pay to raise other peoples kids at all.


I just think that there are a lot of loopholes in this thing is all.

Originally Posted by TopHatsLiberal

I'd rather not have to pay to raise other peoples kids at all.


I just think that there are a lot of loopholes in this thing is all.

I agree in principle with the voucher/charter initiatives - I'd vote on the specifics, though.

Originally Posted by TopHatsLiberal

So every kid is then getting a voucher? Not just the "poorer" kids? If everyone is getting a voucher, then I fail to see the point.

Why shouldn't everyone get one if they want to send their young'uns to a private school? It's their government alotment for education.

Originally Posted by TopHatsLiberal

Statistics say that kids from poorer neighborhoods, the ones getting the vouchers to go to the better schools, are more likely to be involved in gangs and drugs. Just because they go to a better school is not going to eliminate that.

Be a step in the right direction though. Personally I went to a public school in the middle of a wealthy neighborhood, and there were drugs galore... Pot, coke, pills of all types, 'shrooms, acid, hash, opium, and more I never noticed I'm sure. Maybe we just didn't get caught as much statistically...

Originally Posted by TopHatsLiberal

So now the kids that were at a private school to stay away from that, have it being brought into their schools.

It's always there, it's just not there for long. Kicked out of a private school is generally forever...

Originally Posted by TopHatsLiberal

I am not for free handouts from the government. This sounds like a "welfare for all" program to me.

The entire government education system is a welfare program! LOL

Originally Posted by TopHatsLiberal

I just think that there are a lot of loopholes in this thing is all.

Interesting. Way I understand the system, you enroll your kid in private school, fill out the paperwork, government gives the parents' alotment to the private school, and parents pay the rest. Only loophole I see is the one where those of us without kids still have to pay for education.