Education Video releasing soon.

Joe Mantegna narrates a documentary on education. Finding solutions to our failed school system.

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[99ironwood]

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[didles123]

What would you do with a parent who shot their child? Well, that's just a rhetorical question. The point is that any parent in their right mind would want to educate their child. It's strange to worry about things which are so unlikely.

[didles123]

The thing is, when they kid doesn't attend the school, the state doesn't give the school that 15k. I'm not saying that vouchers are bad, just that public schools are paid based on attendance.

[cordsworks]

A lot of people don't understand how vouchers help public schools. It's quite simple: No voucher program yet proposed in the U.S. gave as much to the parent of the student as that student was costing the public school he attended.

For example, take a public school that spends $15,000 per student annually. The voucher would be for $8,000 or thereabouts.

Result? The kids who go elsewhere get assistance, and THE LEFTOVER CASH CAN BE SPENT ON THE REMAINING KIDS. (e.g., more teachers per student.)

[ichbeineinrcg]

What would you do with the parents who choose not to send their kids to any school, nor to homeschool?

You might be a math teacher, but you haven't run the numbers.

[freesk8]

I totally agree with you. My proposal is a first step in your direction. Over the long term, private charities should handle all tuition help for the poor. But we need to get there somehow, and today, too many people think the state should control and fund education. The socialists have one through creeping socialism. We need to fight back with creeping libertarianism.

Let's have private charities supplement the means-tested vouchers in the short run.

[specialtymachining]

If we give vouchers to the poor, then the definition of poor grows to encompass many more than the poor. How about encourage private charities to support schooling for the poor, so government stays out of it completely? There are already many college scholarships out there. I'd bet if there were no public schooling, you'd see a tremendous charitable response, which would operate much more efficiently than goverment. With gov't out of the mix, competition would keep schooling competitive.

[freesk8]

Privatize the schools. Give a voucher only to the poor. It is absurd to give vouchers to the rich and middle class. The rest of us should pay tuition, and send our kids to any school we want to. The competition would improve the schools, and all of our property taxes would be slashed. We need to break the government school monopoly. I am a high school math and physics teacher.