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To: Scumbria who wrote (155305)	6/23/2001 6:33:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I would like to see a test of the Republican plan done before it is implemented universally. Sounds good to me. Actually I'd like a more radical experimet, say in a county or state: 1. The available education funds are divided up into vouchers. Parents get one voucher per child. 2. Parents can use vouchers to send their kids to any schools they wish. They can supplement them with their own funds. 3. Public school buildings are sold to private parties. Most of them would most likely be used as private schools. The problem is that when the word "vouchers" is used, the teachers' unions declare all-out war. So far they've been successful in defending their perks and turf.

To: Scumbria who wrote (155305)	6/23/2001 9:48:46 PM
From: FastC6	Respond to of 769667

So which is it scum? Do the democraps not really have a clue as to what the real problem is?....or....do they know and don't want to address it? . .

To: Scumbria who wrote (155305)	6/23/2001 10:31:21 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 769667

Scumbriia, The public system is so poor and riddled with ccorruprion that it needs to be disbanded and a new system built with the ability to see school hours and set tests for new hire teachers with no requirement to hire the old teachers unless they prove capable on tests. The USA and Canada no longer have the luxury of fooling themselves into believing they have a good public system. By a strange twist, the USA has both worse colleges and better colleges that Canada. Here a degree granting college must satisfy minimum requirements. There are zero diploma mills in Canada. On the converse Canada has no engineering colleges as good as MIT or CalTech and this shows how well the private system can work. Giving mobile funds(vouchers) will indeed start to starve out some of the low end schools and they will be forced to compete to get those dollars. Just supporting them as bad schools in bad areas will not help. they are broken and need to be thrown away and new schooling systems built that teach more hours per day and more weeks per year. We are no longer a harvest economy and there is no need to waste the summertime allowing students to forget what they have learned. better use of computers will help. Teachers have successfully crippled the use of computers in schools for many years. yet Colleges have made great strides in using them in teaching applications. Bill

To: Scumbria who wrote (155305)	6/24/2001 1:57:40 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

WHY do you think the PS are poor??? Is it the teachers...? Is it the significantly increased money (from taxes) per pupil in each state over the last several years? Compare the statistics from NYC public versus parochial school, and their success rate in graduating students, with notes on numbers of students going on to college. Compare the costs per student. See the WSJ for article within the last 3 years. You say: 1. I send my kids to private school, because the public schools are poor.