If the state doesn't pay for schools, what happens to children whose parents have no money?
Tim Send a noteboard - 06/05/2011 10:25:48 PM
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.
That's the part I'm addressing. I read the tone of the whole analogy as suggesting that (as opposed to it only coming in at the end) – apparently you read it differently.
The thing about choice between schools is complex, and I can see reasons both for and against, so I left that part alone altogether.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools - 
- 06/05/2011 05:05:33 AM
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- 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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- 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.
- 06/05/2011 09:40:37 AM
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- 06/05/2011 01:41:10 PM
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- 06/05/2011 01:41:10 PM
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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*
- 06/05/2011 01:42:38 PM
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Yes, but the effects of not having any are seen within days
- 06/05/2011 05:29:16 PM
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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.
- 06/05/2011 06:40:03 PM
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Very narrow-minded - the point is, private is better than public.....
- 06/05/2011 02:47:39 PM
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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*
- 06/05/2011 05:24:23 PM
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I have said nothing of the sort, and never would.
- 06/05/2011 06:31:48 PM
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That is exactly what you said.....and my other reply to you proves.....
- 06/05/2011 10:05:40 PM
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Fair enough on the second point (almost) – correction duly edited in.
- 06/05/2011 10:16:39 PM
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That's a rather big non-sequitur there, don't you think?
- 06/05/2011 06:36:51 PM
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If the state doesn't pay for schools, what happens to children whose parents have no money?
- 06/05/2011 10:25:48 PM
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More relevantly, what would schools be like if they were run like supermarkets? *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:27:49 PM
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Bad schools would close, good ones would get more students - sounds fine to me! *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:49:30 PM
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spoken like someone who has no idea what it takes to run a "good school" *NM*
- 06/05/2011 04:17:12 PM
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Then you have half as many schools. So not much scope for choice any more.
- 06/05/2011 06:44:26 PM
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most of your arguements are against public education being financed by property taxes *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:33:41 PM
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And the forced attendence by where you live instead of giving parents a choice. *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:50:23 PM
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Look, I just want a store that carries Crunch n Munch with Almonds.
- 06/05/2011 09:05:23 PM
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Well if the socialists have their way you won't get Crunch n Munch at all
- 06/05/2011 11:05:55 PM
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