This is not an argument or rebuttal that will win awards for its cogency.
It takes more money to educate a kid to be competitive in a high-tech world now than it did when we were in school. My daughter was being taught how to use both a PC and a Mac in Kindergarten. She made a Powerpoint presentation in first grade.
Do you think the education you and I got would prepare a kid to succeed today? All they had to buy for me was a teacher, a few pencils and some books. The highest tech thing in my school was the stopwatch my gym teacher wore around his neck every single day.
The Bricker Awards for Cogency. Can’t wait for the presentation dinner, sponsored by Ambien.
Nor is this any kind of an argument or a rebuttal.
Run out them, I expect.
Me, too. And yet I am competitive in a high-tech world now.
But this changes the argument. I don’t agree that Republicans are cutting budgets below a level that would jeopardize success.
On what do you base your belief?
The fact that my son’s private school spends much less per student than the local public schools do and produces better results, which results include kids ready to compete in today’s high-tech world.
I don’t know about Bricker, but I would base that on the fact that the United States spends by far the most (excepting Switzerland) of all countries on K-12 education per pupil, and the other countries with much less spending have much better results.
And of course, they admit every applicant, regardless of academic standing, mental and emotional well-being, or disciplinary record.
No, I am sure they don’t. And neither did public school, in my day. When I attended public schools, they were permitted to expel students for gross misbehavior. And since the standard we’ve agreed to use is the support I got when I was in school, that’s what I got when I attended public school.
Bricker’s school may not, but plenty of private and public charter schools do. Most public charters are required to, as a matter of law.
And those schools also spend less per pupil and still produce better results.
Why is that, Fear Itself?
But you made a judgement based on your son’s private school, which has the luxury of not admitting students who do not meet standards which are higher than the public school. Hardly a fair comparison.
When I attended private elementary school, I had to take an exam to get in.
Assuming for the sake of argument that this is true, what about the charter schools I asked about?
No exam needed for my son’s admission to his private Catholic school.
How much money did you send to the Scott Roeder defense fund? How about Paul Hill? Eric Robert Rudolph?
Anti-abortion orgs are all terrorist orgs.
That claim is absolutely untrue.
My organization believes the best way to be pro-life is to remove obstacles that would cause a pregnant woman to consider abortion. In what possible way is that a terrorist viewpoint?
Yes. You are.
5f4super, at this site you are not allowed to insult other posters unless you are posting in The BBQ Pit. So please don’t do this again.