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Originally Posted by Ropetow
Selfish and wrong. God forbid you had a child with severe special needs who needed to be out-sourced to a 'life skills' program, at an annual cost of approximately $60,000 per year. Or, for that matter, any other type of special-needs child requiring (and being entitled to) special (and expensive) accommodations. If you are rich, no sweat. But what if you aren't rich, have no trust fund, and didn't hit the gene-pool lottery. What then? Yeah, your typical town spends more per-pupil to educate a child than does a private (non-elite) school. But they don't bear the costs of special needs children! For some public school districts, nearly 25% of their budget goes to educating children with special needs. Eliminate public education and what happens to those children? Yes, a nation in Europe once had a solution for dealing with those children. I think America has a much better solution. Is public education perfect? No. Is 'outside the box' thinking a good thing? Absolutely. But, in the end, Thomas Jefferson was right in his advocacy for a free public education for all children.
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Lol, "free public education" Nothing is free. There's nothing selfish about wanting to change the way education is dealt with in the USA. What we have been doing is not working. I'll tell you what. Keep the public schools and allow people, especially poor people to send their kids to any school they want with vouchers, and expand charter schools, and let's see how that works out. Even our very best public schools in the USA don't come near the education children are getting in the average European schools. Again, we are waaaay off topic, and I take part of the blame for that.