Econ 101: The Voucher System of Education

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[hogarcito]

Please keep the language clean in this debate, folks, or I'll just have to keep removing all your posts. Thanks.

[samm1809]

@makaisenki and by the way, in effect, the teacher's unions are the only thing standing in the way of the voucher system, so if you do agree with me that we should get rid of the unions, then if they're gone the voucher system will soon enough be implemented.

[samm1809]

@makaisenki lol calm down dude. people like you and michael moore seem to be so devoted to being right that you use anger as a last resort. you obviously have very little knowledge of how a free market would work, most likely because you grew up with whiny hippies or idiots for parents. oh well, no need to bother explaining stuff to a layman anymore.

[makaisenki]

@samm1809 Bad schools do not get shut down. They can teach what ever they want. If they want to teach creationism, and that evolution is a lie, they can. Rich people who do not have a grasp of reality will send their kids to those schools, because free market jack asses don't want their kids to go to secular schools where they might learn something that may invalidate their religious doctrine. We need standards.

It's not as simple as your myopia allows you to believe.

[samm1809]

@makaisenki i just don't see what your solution is. if there were a voucher system, the problem of unions and state influence would be gone. also, you have no base of reasoning to say that education is a right. nobody has the right to other people's services. THEY have the right to sell other people their services. same with healthcare, same with everything else. charter schools are the government admitting that they can't run schooling.

[makaisenki]

@samm1809 The poor can't afford charter schools, and education should be a right to the people, not a privilege to those that can afford it damn everyone else.

I've already stated blatantly that our monopolistic teachers unions are a problem. Why are you bringing them up again in the form of an attack if we already agree on that?

[samm1809]

@makaisenki look, seriously i just can't believe that you can't see that the charter school system is basically the only form of competitive free market style schooling that the socialist monopolist unions will allow. how stupid can you be???

[samm1809]

@makaisenki charter schools are basically a free market situation for schools, dummy. bad schools fall out of the system and are shut down, good schools stay. they work because the schools are held accountable and don't bend over for the unions. they are not regulated to death.

[samm1809]

@makaisenki let me get this straight- you think that the system that we have now relies on the free market? bullshit. that entire thing was about nothing but the fact that the system is wrong, and the system currently relies on state schools that are funded by taxes and infested with unionised employees and reason-free alturistic morality. someone gives fools like you a little bit of sad music and footage you think your eyes have been opened.

[samm1809]

@makaisenki alright. only if you watch john stossel's 'stupid in america'.