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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (52139)	7/1/2002 4:46:04 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If money is going to private schools that already exist than unless that money is "funny" money it will be coming from public school budgets- and all those kids already in private school will begin to draw money away from the public schools. I am willing to pay what it takes to make the schools work. I am for radical change. For the first time ever three schools districts won Malcolm Baldridge awards for changing their districts. Let us implement what works. Let us pay the best and the brightest to work in the inner city- and lets make it safe enough there for them to want to stay (right now it is NOT- I know some people who have friends working in urban and dangerous areas, and they do not feel safe). I do not want to see a system any more divisive and unfair than the one we already have. What I would like to see is a massive effort to make the public schools run on best practices. I think it would be doable if we had the commitment of the public- which depends to a certain amount on some sort of leader for public education emerging. So far all we get are people who whine and winge about the faults, and act embarassed about championing it. Public universal free education has enormous idealistic meaning in a free country. Yes, you can opt out- but should it be encouraged? Should we make people want to opt out? My opinion is no. Yours of course may be different.