Milton Friedman - School Choice

Professor Friedman spells out his recipe for fixing America's broken educational system. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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[Tidoublemy]

Few things excite me more than logging into Youtube to see a new Milton Friedman video. Thanks, Libertypen!

[nick10463]

Liberals created Ghettos. It's in their best interest to put as many people into ghettos as possible. They give them some money for living - and Ghetto's residents will vote for them in exchange. Very simple. Shameful too.

[angryliberal1984]

@mixmastermeeks I am a teacher - and a unionized one at that! I have also two teaching awards and am Nationally Board Certified Teacher, the highest level that a teacher can achieve. I was a non-union teacher for a long time (eight years) and can tell you exactly what it amounted to: Being exploited by my employer: no health insurance, no benefits, no sick pay, no vacation. Teachers unions aren't the problem. I care about kids and fight for them.You hate the fact I will fight for myself as well.

[angryliberal1984]

@mixmastermeeks I am a teacher - and a unionized one at that! I have also two teaching awards and am Nationally Board Certified Teacher, the highest level that a teacher can achieve. I was a non-union teacher for a long time (eight years) and can tell you exactly what it amounted to: Being exploited by my employer: no health insurance, no benefits, no sick pay, no vacation. Teachers unions aren't the problem. I care about kids and fight for them.You hate the fact I will fight for myself as well.

[mixmastermeeks]

@angryliberal1984 I have no doubt New Orleans is still a mess. But their schools system is a lot better than it was prior. But you can also look at Harlem academies. Sadly students have to enter a and win in a lottery to attend. This is because liberals are more worried about union teacher jobs than education and so they stop charter schools from forming. But they use the excuse that education is too important. It must be handled by the government. (and the kids are from slums)

[mixmastermeeks]

@angryliberal1984 Correlation does not mean causation. It may be true that in Illinois schools with higher budgets have pupils that do better. But look at Detroit. It has one of the highest per student budgets in the U.S. and some of the worst schools. Education funding has increased something like 400% since 1979 (when the department of education was created) but test scores have stayed the same. (that is with inflation).

[angryliberal1984]

@mixmastermeeks Also: No such thing exists as "cheap quality education." It is an oxymoron. It's law of life - doing anything well requires resources. In Illinois the best schools have the highest budgets per pupil Why do you think a person's ACT score correlates best with his or her parents' income, even more than IQ? And no one wants to work in a dangerous or scary neighborhood (called "slums" in American English) even for good money. Been to New Orleans recently and it is a disaster still.

[pauloolem]

@nick10463 your example is very poor. look at the studies, i'm not rigurous enough (and i'm the one to blame for that) to come up with figures and precise data, although we know, it's part of political science that people who are unemployed, who are poor, for various reasons (i could dive into some sociology...) vote much less. also, you don't need to tell me to learn. i wrote my master's thesis on the correlation between a minimum wage and the rate of unemployement, so i learn, thank you

[nick10463]

@pauloolem

--"it's proved that poor people don't vote"--

Empty, untruthful statement.

Come to Harlem on Election day, everyone is out waiting in line to vote for their food stamps! This is the only day this people get up yearly...

Learn.

.

[pauloolem]

@nick10463 wrong, it's proved that poor people don't vote, at least they vote less in comparison to wealthier people

[angryliberal1984]

@mixmastermeeks True that.