Public Schools vs. Private Schools.

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Originally Posted by Vibecrewangel

Perhaps your mother shold stop bitching and get off her lazy ass and find a better job. Maybe at a private school where she won't have to teach "retards". Or does that only apply to whiny liberal bastards? Or....is she just not good enough to get a better job?

No other job open, but I don't think your going to get your point across with personal attacks.

One case? My district alone had 6 schools / 24 classes with an average of 19 students per class. Every district in the county had numbers in that range. Simply because they had classes for different levels so that these kids could "have classes they could use" and learn skills for the future.

Well then, where is the issue? I thought the argument was that retards wouldn't receive anything to their advantage since the demand would not be high enough in some areas. Obviously, demand is high enough where you live, so I can't say I see the problem.

And what happens when tuition in better schools goes higher? Then the $5000.00 voucher won't cut it. Thus, richer kids in richer schools and poorer kids in poorer schools. HHmmmmmm looks like the same dynamic under a different system. And since there is no gaurantee of at least some form of standard education, it has the potential to be worse than the current system.

Why do you think that tuition would raise out of nowhere? Business owners don't want to cut out an entire source of profit when they can provide quality education for less. If anything, competition would keep their prices low.

Some schools might charge more and be made for the rich, but private schools like that already exist. You cannot eliminate that unless you ban private schools. In any case, are you denying that parents who want a better education for their child should be able to spend more on it?

http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-023.html