jim rozen wrote:
Right, but all the problem kids, the expensive ones, will still
stay in public school - because no private school can afford to
educate them.
But some of them are in wheelchairs, etc. "Hey, this voucher
says I can come here. You better make the classrooms ADA
compliant." What do they say, 'nope' - the voucher is no good
here?
It looks like I am the only one in the group who can settle this. I am
impartial; my wife tells me I have a pathological hatred of school.
First to Jim:
The state already has kids with "special needs" sent to private school.
One the big items in my town's school budget is the cost of sending a
few kids to very expensive private schools that hopefully meet their needs.
To Ed and Gunner and the rest:
You can't really argue. It's similar to STD statistics. The national
statistics are interesting, but what really affects you is the condition
of the person in bed next to you. In education you can prove anything
you want because kids are different and respond to different methods of
teaching. I am in favor of vouchers, because it would give easier access
to the different methods of teaching. I am puzzled because the people
that tell me how wonderful the public school system is are the the first
to say no one will go there if given a choice. In my case (and Ed's)
there are a limited number of school choices built into the public
system. My son went to a "magnet" high school. He did very well there.
He is that kind of kid. _But_ one size does not fit all. There should be
(accessable) "magnet" schools for the other kinds of kids.
Want apocryphal stories?
My son went to a lot of science fairs, physics competitions and the
like. He tells me the first to be eliminated in any meet were the home
schooled kids. They weren't considered competition.
This shows that home schooling doesn't work.
He is now a FIRST robotics team advisor for an inner city public school
in Boston. He tells me the kids there have never been exposed to
anything like engineering before. Some kids pick it right up. Some kids
didn't know what an "angle" was. My son was amazed that anyone could get
to high school without knowing what an angle was.
This shows that public schooling doesn't work.
I'd give some examples of how private schooling doesn't work but we are
all getting tired.
Since the posts in this thread require a URL I'll give one.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393310728/002-2589149-2570406?v=glance
Kevin Gallimore
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