Just a short reply to some of your comments (I wanna get outta
here)...

On 07 Oct 2005 10:15:58 EDT, Tim Daneliuk
wrote:

Renata wrote:

What's your proposal for educatin' the populace, pray tell?

Why do I have to have one? I don't have a proposal for instilling
religion in everyone else's children. I don't have a proposal for
clothing everyone else's children. I don't have a proposal for
inflicting particular personal values on everyone else's chidren. These,
and a host of other things, are the job of the *parents* not a
meddlesome program of public theft and wealth redistribution. Government
as an instrument of education is analogous to having Michael Jackson run
a day-camp for 12 year old boys.

Education is the responsibility of parents only as far as making sure
the kids get a good one. Most parents aren't gonna be capable, have
time, etc. to sit down every ady and teach their kids.

Wealth redistribution we'll cover next time.



'Course, the way things are going, all they're gonna be needing is
proper diction of "you wan' fries wif that"?

That's, in part, because the highly-vaunted public education system has
turned into a political madrassas to indoctrinate its victims, er, I
mean students. Public education has become an enabler for irresponsible
parents, incompetent teachers, and indulged children. There is an old,
and very true, saying: If you want less of something, tax it. If you
want more if something, subsidize it. By that measure, we are subsidizing
irresponsibility, incompetence, and laziness and the results are all
around us.


The fact that the education system is broken (in many ways) doesn't
mean AN education system isn't needed. Just like the answer to poor
schools should be to fix the schools rather than give vouchers, the
answer to problems in the education system aren't to disolve it
entirely.

A well educated (and informed) populace is needed for a properly
functioning democracy among many other reasons. You wanna have the
rugrats running around illiterate, time on their hands, etc.?

R


Renata

On 06 Oct 2005 04:15:59 EDT, Tim Daneliuk
wrote:
-snip-

we can fix the school
board problem by (very properly) getting rid of tax-funded education.