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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (586214)9/24/2010 5:57:25 PM
From: TimF2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1573895
 
Uh, Tim, what you are proposing has been tried.

When it has been its mostly worked pretty well, but it hasn't been tried much in the US.

You will have to come up with an example where there are no public schools with a universal, educated population before this idea can be entertained.

1 - No I don't. If something wasn't done, that doesn't mean it wouldn't work if done. Your argument is essentially one to not ever change to something new.

2 - There isn't any reason to think government paying for schools without directly providing them would not work. You provide no argument to support the idea that they would not.

I'm not quite sure if any of them have absolutely "no public schools", but a number of countries in Europe often pay for schooling (sometimes in religious schools, but not always) rather than directly providing public schools to everyone. And the US does this to a large degree (with grants and subsidized or government provided loans, and with the GI Bill) for college level education. And Chile has a nation wide voucher system that's worked out rather well. Also other countries have a much larger percentage of their students in private schools even without government payment.
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