Money Should Follow Kids - Q&A with Reason Foundation's Lisa Snell

[Ven3z01an0]

can we afford 30 years of mis-educated self-entitled idiots with the power to vote?

[InMooseWeTrust]

The money follows the people in medicare and higher education, but would Nick consider these two programs to be successful?

[mangoswiss]

30 years! I hope you're wrong. My baby is due in May and it'll be grown up by then. I live in the UK though. Same shit, different country.

[yakyakyak69]

Gov't ALWAYS fails, cost too much and leads to the corruption of cronyism.

[Leavon]

I tend to agree here, I have a daughter in the public school system and they aren't being challenged they are be taught the standards for taking a test, they aren't being educated. My wife and I are going to enrole her in a private school locally and really economise to be able to afford it, I don't fault the teachers as they are following their instructions I fault the lame assed Dept of Education.

[Pdrum2]

@Leavon Yeah but most teachers support this garbage so I do put fault on most of them

[sdfkjllshadflhadfshl]

Detroit cracks me up, one week they announce that they will hand out 40,000 new laptops for free, then a week later they say they have to shut down half their schools.

[Chad9976]

OMG Nick isn't wearing his leather jacket!

[Thorbie]

@Chad9976 Then he is not Nick Gillespie. He is Clark Kent. Lol.

[SomethingSea1]

Interesting theme of money-follows-student going on for the past few days.

[dayvidiot]

@SomethingSea1

yes, i've noticed the same thing.

what i want to know, though is:

whos money?

(i hope they don't mean mine)

[SomethingSea1]

@dayvidiot Since it's federal loans... yep, yours. Let's spend tax money in better ways! (I mean, yeah, it's theft, but better to spend it better than worse, y'know?)

[oJKBo]

Dept. of Housing and Urban Dev. Why do we need it?

[SomethingSea1]

@oJKBo Shhhh!

[TreachMarkets]

The first 20 seconds explains the problem with all government services, not just education.

[nicademus1974]

30 years!?! Hate to break it to ya lady but we aint got 30 months left.

[BMWg84]

@nicademus1974

Could be 30 WEEKS! lol

[SomethingSea1]

@nicademus1974 Isn't 30 months still really optimistic? Maybe 24, at most. 12 still seems a bit high... But rather realistic.

[sleedolfine15]

Poor children are prisoners of the public school system.

[jkmatt1]

@sleedolfine15 No poor children are prisoners of bad parenting. If you treat school as a daycare what do you really expect. If Charter schools are so wonderful why do put out students who are behavior problem or cant measure up? If you take that ability away then what your left with is a public school. So what being fixed?

[sleedolfine15]

@jkmatt1 This is'nt rocket science. In every area of our lives when we don't like the services we get we can go someplace else to somebody else to get our needs met. If we don't like one brand of canned beans we can buy an alternative brand. You don't like the food in one restaurant, you can go to another. It works,yet this simple,effective formula we refuse to apply to education where too many kids are trapped in their crappy local school because of politics. CHOICE IN EDUCATION IS A RIGHT!

[Pdrum2]

@jkmatt1 Part of the problem is the bad parents that don't care that think the schools should do everything, no they are not prisoners of parents I agree there are bad parents, do you want them to be worse?