Mark Anderson again: This is the old theory of solving problems by throwing money at them. The amount of money one spends on education is most definitely not the point. It is my firm belief that a private school can do a lot more with the same amount of money a public school gets. ... And they have to take every kid assigned to them. What the parents want is way down on the list. A private school can be focused on achievement, with the parents being the major interest group they must satisfy.
It is this kind of reasoning that makes me so crazy. So why is Mark saying the private schools need more money from the state [taxes] to enroll and do a better job with kids who need special services if they can do so much more with so much less? The private schools charge huge bucks and do tons of fundraising. And don't the private schools pay their teachers less? And then instead of making the schools better, the voucher system will allow us as a society to say, we don't need to do anything to make the public schools better and if parents aren't smart enough to get their kids out of the bad schools, well then they deserve it. Diane Wiley, still in Powderhorn and still disgusted with elitist survivalist "I'll take care of my family and the rest of the city be damned" thinking _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
