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Originally Posted by Mink Islander
Irish Mist, how wonderfully and utterly selfish of you. We are a country that has always believed in the value of education. It's a shared burden by all citizens. Constitutional right, I might add. It was for your education and always will be for our future children as well.
Non-sectarian private k-12 schools cost about $13,000 per student per year according to a recent Council on Private Education survey. Do you really think that a typical young family with 2 maybe 3 children could afford to spend $26-40,000 per year on K-12 education? Really?
Whose quality of life would be better? Oh yeah, yours because apparently you don't have school age children. I think, thankfully, most of the U.S. population has a more evolved view of citizenship than you.
Or is this really some perverse form of birth control you advocate. Them that can't afford to pay for their young-uns education, shouldn't have children, ayuh! Git me another beer, Marge! LOL  |
Nice way to put words, or your words in my mouth. What puplic school, or city job do you hold ? With no puplic schools the price of private education would be lower since we would have a different system from the one we use today. Most government schools are not very good, but I see the teachers unions could care less about that. It would be nice to see vouchers, but the unions will not allow it.
As for me being selfish.....get real. Something needs to change in American public education, and your internet snark is typical of people who can't see outsde this box, or any box. I have no doubt things will not change in public education. I suspect it will get worse. This is getting off topic in any event, and to expect anything like intelligent conversation with the likes of you is a waste of time since you retort was more personal than rational. This kind of personal attack is a common problem in public debate these days. Oh, and what a surprise......you're a Mass resident, lol. The land of the rude and crude and government owned sheeple. When I said I was thinking "outside the box" it was meant to spark thinking in a different way about an issue. I have no doubt that public schools will be here in 50 years......what I'm concerned about is how to start thinking in different ways about these problems.....not having to deal with a vulgarian who can't attack the ideas without attacking the person.
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