kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

[mmotyka at lsil.com]

measl at mfn.org  wrote :

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my old stuff :
>> Another facet is that the well-to-do are attempting to remove their
>> funds from the systems so they can use those funds to educate their
>> children as they choose. A voucher system would surely benefit me
>> financially. This is a reasonable desire but it will have a negative
>> effect on the public school systems and a subsequent negative effect on
>> the society as a whole.
>
>So I must educate my children according to the public good, and not the
>good of the kids themselves?  Fuck you.
>
Learn to read poopyhead (isn't that now the official CP insult?). 

Look at the part you snipped :

  I'm not saying that it (vouchers or other defunding)
  should be ruled out but you should at least think 
  about the implications a bit.  

All I said was that actions can have unintended consequences. Make well
considered choices. Look at the power industry deregulation in CA. Too
much, too quickly and poorly crafted. By all means let's improve the
educational opportunities in this country but not with some stooopid
knee-jerk approach. Try and do it in one fell swoop based on right-wing
war chants and I'll bet you do more harm than good.

>> I know the masses are a bit thick but do you
>> want them to be even thicker? 
>
>To be frank, sending kids to public schools is practically *requiring*
>that they become "thick", merely in order to _survive_.
>
This statement is neither entirely true nor entirely false but it sure
as hell is a knee-jerk reaction to the issue. Sounds like the sort of
foolishness that Rush Limbaugh vomits on the airwaves.

>> I wish there were more ( and better ) educational choices and that those
>> choices were reflected reasonably in the financial systems but every
>> proposal I've seen so far sucks moose bladder through a hairy straw.
>
>While you claim to favor choices, you have just argued that these choices
>should not be available.
>
Uh, nope, that's not what I said. I said I would be in favor of
carefully considered proposals. Proposals that are fair to individuals
and beneficial to the community. Again, the two goals are neither
completely compatible nor mutually exclusive.

>Make up your mind.
>
I have : good ideas, thumbs up, bad ideas, thumbs down. 

>-- 
>Yours, 
>J.A. Terranson
>sysadmin at mfn.org
>
Fuck you back,
Mike