Tejek Re...<<<I am not sure but maybe you don't realize that all people do not have the advantages that the wealthy have in this country, or even those that someone like me has. The voucher system is not the cure all for some people that it may be to many of the middle class.
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Ted, I am sure that the voucher isn't a cure all, but its a start. The public school system won't change because everyone is protecting their turf. The administrators, teachers and teachers union, and parents are all battling over the future direction of public schools, but change won't come until they get desperate, and decide they have to change or die. We need vouchers and a private school system in order to force the head honchos, teachers unions etc. that without change, they will be left out in the cold. Right now they have us by the billfold. Vouchers will change that and make them more responsive to the parents, and students.
Furthermore why should we abandon a system that has billions of dollars in infrastructure to start a new system that will probably encounter the same problems down the road. <<<
I would assume any executive asks that when deciding whether he should build a new modern factory or renovate the old. Its because the old factory is so old and drafty, with old inefficient machinery that it costs less to tear it down and rebuild from scratch. In order to save the public system, we need to recognize the system is broken, tear it down and rebuild it with a new modern teaching methods, modern and progressive administrators and teachers devoted to the students needs, not their own. We absolutely need to make it such that the teenagers want to go to school. This public system isn't meeting their needs, and has ruined student morale. A college type of system has proven itself; and should be implemented at a high school level. |
