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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: November 16, 2007, 07:45:33 PM »

I generally favor school vouchers, but not blindly.  For instance, the one Gov. Sanford tried to get the SC General Assembly to approve was so small that it effectively served only to cover the costs of pupils already going to private or religious schools.  As such it wasn't a pro-education measure but a give money to well off measure.  I don't know enough about the Utah proposal to say whether I'd have supported it if I lived there.
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2007, 08:43:35 PM »
« Edited: November 16, 2007, 08:45:16 PM by Lamont Zemyna Vaižgantas »

Private high schools and middle schools, however, just reinforce class divisions and/or lead to religious indoctrination, and vouchers just further the gap by robbing public schools of students and funding.

I wasn't aware that public schools own the children that attend them.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2007, 02:33:57 PM »

If their kid was that bright, they would've gotten great grades in the public schools, regardless of what they were like, which would've made for easy admission to any public university.

Assuming that the kid wasn't bullied, assaulted, or killed by a gang or clique.
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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2007, 12:22:43 PM »


There's no way a single person is qualified to teach all those subjects.  Even if they bring in all sorts of different teachers, it still prevents people from getting social education and learning to live in the world.


Plenty of ways to learn social skills: church, youth sports, scouting, interacting with other home schooled kids, even going outside to play with other neighborhood kids after they come home from school.  Nah, strike that last one.  I don't think kids just go outside to have unstructured fun anymore. Sad
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