To: pgerassi who wrote (125325 ) 10/4/2000 8:36:29 PM From: hmaly Respond to Pergrassi Re......However, on the question of vouchers, US colleges and universities are rated the world's best period. The public universities and colleges have privately run ones to compete for the students and keep them honest and thus have made the group as a whole the best in the world. Why not allow this system to grow downward into the primary education system. It works and produces the results everyone claims they want. Perhaps the system should be that vouchers only cover a percentage, say for example, half of the per pupil costs of the public school. Add to that a system by which each public primary school can get endowments just like public universities (usually from prominent citizens and graduates) using the same well known systems. Thus, we can turn this problem around by using what we know to work. Now good schools (public and private) have rewards for turning out graduates that are well prepared and poor schools (again public or private) will have consequences of doing a bad job (although since they keep some of the costs of the students no longer there, could get rid of the teachers that do not educate well, decrease class sizes, move out of dilapidated buildings to the remaining better maintained ones, etc. thus getting a chance to turn things around) <<<<
