lowing wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
lowing wrote:
Why would I need to do that? Al Franken, the cornerstone of Air America couldn't hold it together, I think the point has long been proven.
If it's already been proven, then why hesitate to challenge me? Surely, the "proof" you have could defeat anything I have to say, but the only way to "prove" that is to accept the challenge...
Sighhhhhhhhhhh ok gee, you already admit you can't defend half of the liberal bullshit so now I gotta come up with another. OK, defend the liberal position of standing for freedom and diversity yet insist it all happens in govt. run schools. No vouchers to let students go to school where they want
Racial integration of schools was a necessary, albeit painful, thing. It increased the diversity of our education system, and it could not have been done as effectively through a purely private institution.
That being said, I support school vouchers, but it's not because I think government-run schooling is such a bad thing. I just think that America's culture does not provide for a good environment for public education now.
All of the countries that provide good socialized education spend a LOT more per student on their schools than we do. If we spent as much on education as we do on the military, we'd have a kickass system. The problem is that our priorities are all fucked up. We're willing to dump $400 billion into Iraq, but we let our own inner cities decay. We spend a ridiculous amount of money on healthcare because of the excessive bureaucracy of HMOs.
If we were willing to devote more cash to education and healthcare and less to the military, we'd have decent socialized systems, but we just don't want to. Or rather... the powers that be don't....
This is why school vouchers are a comparatively better idea than continuing our mostly underfunded public school systems.
In addition to this, fundamentalist Christians hinder the ability of our system to teach important concepts like evolution, because some of them demand that creationism should be given equal time. When you have enough religious nuts in your country that a state school board nearly does this (Kansas), then you know your culture has problems.
So, again, in order to spare the rest of the rational public, privatizing education is a good thing, so that the religious nuts can gather in their own deranged communities.