Midwest Public School Abolishment Proposition

[WiseGuy]

X Ron Dubya

And if anyone wants to make something out of it, just remember I'm in control of the Nukes j/k

[WiseGuy]

The latest one.

[WiseGuy]

And people can't be educated without Public Schools?  There will still be Private Schools, the Internet and a new sort of Public School that this bill creates through Libraries.  We don't need Public Schools to ensure an educated society.

Private schools will ensure that a large section of the community will be effectively excluded from education. Cost will simply be too prohibitive particularly given the terms of the proposition pur forward here. As soon as our public schools lose funding, a massive number of our citizens will seek education elsewhere. The private schools will not be able to absorb that number of students, at least not in the short or medium term, as they don't have the capacity. To deal with this massive demand and same level of supply, prices will increase dramatically, putting education beyond all but the economic elite of our region. What will the other former schoolgoers do? Many will be far too young to enter the jobs market. Many parents will have to become full time homemakers to mind their once occupied children. Thus draining our workplaces economic potential and many families income.

The internet can be a wonderful tool, but it cannot replace the school environment, certianly not without effective supervision and guidance. How will this be achieved?

We absolutely need public schools for our society. This proposition would lead to chaos in the Midwest, and I will not stand idly by while it is given serious consideration.

You ignore the fact that this bill does create a substitute through the public library system.

[WiseGuy]

I'm not Midwestern, but I encourage the region not to do this.

I'm very libertarian, but in this case, this is just fundamentally a bad idea.  Public schools are key in securing that students' futures are competitive with Asian markets that are quickly taking our jobs.  They also are key to preventing crime.  If kids are not in schools, they will be on the streets.  You can't afford to send every child to a private school.  It would be better to just end up funding.

The problem with the library idea is that not everyone is capable of independent study.  And with the average library serving, what, several ten thousand people, can we fit all of the kids who cannot afford private schools in poor areas into libraries?  No way.

This plan is fine in the middle class suburban areas we all live, maybe, but it is entirely ignorant of impoverished urban areas that can barely afford to educate children with the funding they have.

This is the last thing that should be cut totally.

The libraries can hire former teachers, since librarians will basicly be teachers under this plan.  Also, education wasn't under the feds thumb until Carter, and it has been in steady decline ever since.