That's a rather big non-sequitur there, don't you think?
Legolas Send a noteboard - 06/05/2011 06:36:51 PM
By contrast, if you don't send your kids to school, they don't die – they just grow up to be useless people who do nothing but hang around causing trouble for everyone else. Then they can't get a job, so it's either benefits or crime, and the economy goes (even further) down the toilet. Unlike with food, vast numbers of parents wouldn't care enough about education to make their children go to school, or to pay for it in the first place.
Who on earth is talking about allowing parents the right to refuse their children an education? Not the article I just read, that's for sure. Giving parents free school choice does not mean giving them the choice to choose no school at all - not unless they homeschool and meet certain standards for that, so that's an education too.
It's true that the article reaches lunatic-land when it starts about how it'd be even better if all schools were private, but up until that paragraph it certainly has good points.
If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools - 
- 06/05/2011 05:05:33 AM
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the obvious solution is to just do away with public education in general 
- 06/05/2011 06:41:58 AM
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If groceries were like education... the analogy would be apt. But they aren't, and it isn't.
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I don't see your point there. The eating of groceries also goes on for many years – all one's life. *NM*
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Yes, but the effects of not having any are seen within days
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I see. Yes, that's another reason why it's easy to sit back and do nothing until it's too late.
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Very narrow-minded - the point is, private is better than public.....
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so the rest of should be forced to send our kids to bad schools to keep a level playing field? *NM*
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I have said nothing of the sort, and never would.
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That is exactly what you said.....and my other reply to you proves.....
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Fair enough on the second point (almost) – correction duly edited in.
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That's a rather big non-sequitur there, don't you think?
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If the state doesn't pay for schools, what happens to children whose parents have no money?
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More relevantly, what would schools be like if they were run like supermarkets? *NM*
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Bad schools would close, good ones would get more students - sounds fine to me! *NM*
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spoken like someone who has no idea what it takes to run a "good school" *NM*
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Then you have half as many schools. So not much scope for choice any more.
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most of your arguements are against public education being financed by property taxes *NM*
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And the forced attendence by where you live instead of giving parents a choice. *NM*
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Look, I just want a store that carries Crunch n Munch with Almonds.
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Well if the socialists have their way you won't get Crunch n Munch at all
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