Thread: One small step!

Originally Posted by CivilWars

With the "wacky" stuff taught in private schools then pubkic schools should be leaps and bounds ahead of them academically, right? I want tax dollars spent educating kids to be contributing members of society. Period. If the public school system can do that then great. If not then I peronally have no problem with parents choosing to take money that would be spent on their child regardless using it elsewhere. But that's just me.

I'm not opposed to the idea of using money that should go to public schools to fund private schools, but if that's what's happening then the private schools need to increase their student base to include those who would typically be going to public schools, and also need to teach approved curriculums rather than things like creationism.

~Morningfrost

Originally Posted by CivilWars

With the "wacky" stuff taught in private schools then pubkic schools should be leaps and bounds ahead of them academically, right? I want tax dollars spent educating kids to be contributing members of society. Period. If the public school system can do that then great. If not then I peronally have no problem with parents choosing to take money that would be spent on their child regardless using it elsewhere. But that's just me.

The only way I'd even talk about using state money on private schools is if we require, like Morningfrost said, private schools to admit any student who applies and require them to use a state-approved curriculum. I'd even go further and say that if your private school chose to accept these vouchers, that school would have to abide by the separation of church and state. To me, if you remove any one of those criteria, vouchers shouldn't even be a discussion. I definitely think there is room for reform in the education sphere, but the fact that there isn't a noticeable difference leads me to believe a lot also has to do with our culture devaluing education.