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Could Our Education System Soon Look Like This?

Two questions:

If everyone goes to private school, isn't that the same as everyone going to public school?

If only the "privileged" are able to attend what would be considered better schools, how is that different from a caste system?
 
Flat out awful. Everything about it. The privatization has started and will only get worse in the industry. I won't go into great detail as to why other then to say it doesn't take a genius to figure out what private entities are worried about. The bottom line. Then, let's throw religion into the mix. Oy ****ing vey. Awful, just ****ing awful.
 
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Two questions:

If everyone goes to private school, isn't that the same as everyone going to public school?

If only the "privileged" are able to attend what would be considered better schools, how is that different from a caste system?

I dont think that's the point.

School choice is so that people can send their kids to schools to learn what they believe in, and not feel like they are beimg indoctrinated by things they dont believe in.

This is sort of a double edge sword. On one hand people want the freedom to teach their kids what they want, but on the other hand it could be teaching them the wrong things. Who to say what is the truth? Liberals? Thats what liberals would have you believe. But that's dangerous for one side to demand their way be taught as the truth. Thats why it has to be freedom of choice, and let the best ideas win.
 
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/01/31/512507538/under-devos-heres-how-school-choice-might-work

I know I lean more right than most here, but I like this. I also was privileged enough to go to a private school, and receive an excellent education. So I'm probly a bit biased. What do others think? [MENTION=3213]Wes Mantooth[/MENTION] you're a teacher, speak up.

I think education systems should be pointed toward discovery. Do you think these changes point the ship more in that direction, or less?
 
Well, putting it "kindly", I believe public schools are dinosaurs dead long enough to publicly stink. Sorry Wes. I pay enough school taxes to educate a village, and pay for my kids' private school to boot. And the public schools are abysmal failures. Total failures. Expensive failures.

OK, so I'll qualify my claims. The "private school" my kids use in online, and costs $300/yr, and allows my kids to accelerate their program if they have the ability to go forward at a higher pace. And is accredited for recognized diplomas all the way. That's what it costs for Wes to show up for one day to teach his class. Wes, do you realize how useless and overpaid you are for what you do. If you want a future, find one of those online schools and get a job with them, and do some of those really fun and effective lessons they do.

My state income tax, my property tax, and part of my federal tax goes to "education" and it is all obsolete brainwashing social stuff and no actual education.

It looks to me like Trump has hit a home run on education

Duck's disdain for a supposed "caste system" is misplaced. What we have now is the "caste system" with elites giving their children the expensive private schools that establish the elite network for life, with the poor folks' kids being publicly propagandized to be the worker bees in the elite's corporate cartels. you, know, McDonaald's burger slaves.

The online education is the way past all that, while removing the tax burdens of overpriced babysitting/socialization factories. Affordable for almost anyone, less expensive than one trip to instant care doctor. Imagine how much prosperity would come from freeing up all that wasted human expenditure for productive jobs. Effective use of tax dollars, and all that, with opportunity for everyone.
 
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DeVos is a ****ing trainwreck, and in way over her head. But Dems are spineless so they won't filibuster
 
DeVos is a ****ing trainwreck, and in way over her head. But Dems are spineless so they won't filibuster

Except the Ds gutted the filibuster in the Senate because they are incapable of looking down the road. The sought short term gain and ended up shooting themselves, and America, in the foot.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/21/harry-reid-nuclear-senate/3662445/

The threshold is no longer 60 but 51. Nuclear option. They made their bed and now have to lay in it.

The exception is S.C nominees. They are still a 60 threshold.
 
Except the Ds gutted the filibuster in the Senate because they are incapable of looking down the road. The sought short term gain and ended up shooting themselves, and America, in the foot.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/21/harry-reid-nuclear-senate/3662445/

The threshold is no longer 60 but 51. Nuclear option. They made their bed and now have to lay in it.

The exception is S.C nominees. They are still a 60 threshold.

Maybe, maybe not. Dems have chosen to throw away the rule book because their "cause" justifies the means on everything. Now the R's don't need that rule book either.

I think the D's would be smart and play ball by the old good manners they threw away, and look at Gorsuch and admit "this is as good as it's going to get", and give him a unanimous approval. Nobody will want to let the D play the game if they don't decide that "civil society" is a higher cause than outdated and discredited Marxism. Marxism died with Lenin, anyway, when his goons killed Trotsky. It's never been anything but dog-eat-dog tyranny since.
 
DeVos is a ****ing trainwreck, and in way over her head. But Dems are spineless so they won't filibuster

Public education is poop. Flush it.

Next Constitutional Amendment s/b separation of schools and State, abolish state-directed brainwashing.
 
Public education is poop. Flush it.

Next Constitutional Amendment s/b separation of schools and State, abolish state-directed brainwashing.

...and in, largely, with Church-directed brainwashing. Yay!
 
Public education is poop. Flush it.

Next Constitutional Amendment s/b separation of schools and State, abolish state-directed brainwashing.

your takes are poop. Flush them.
 
Except the Ds gutted the filibuster in the Senate because they are incapable of looking down the road. The sought short term gain and ended up shooting themselves, and America, in the foot.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/21/harry-reid-nuclear-senate/3662445/

The threshold is no longer 60 but 51. Nuclear option. They made their bed and now have to lay in it.

The exception is S.C nominees. They are still a 60 threshold.


but thats what dems do. short term THINKING.

this is not something new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1SUn0zTGUQ
 
...and in, largely, with Church-directed brainwashing. Yay!

Sadly, you're absolutely right. Western religions have not escaped their statist medieval mindset, what with the whole Judeo-Christian history and all coming from a "national religion" or "chosen people".

Few people really give our founders enough credit for freedom of religion. They had to do it to get 13 colonies with a chance to stand against Britain long-term. They knew the British would be coming again. But several colonies had state-supported religions and would not join the union unless they could keep them

Later on, people realized it was a form of double taxation to pay for government and churches when they amounted to pretty much the same "service" and states one by one just dropped the financial support and stopped bothering citizens with questions of faith.

I figure we have the technology now for really good online education, and people can get as much as they want. It is really the time when we could demand government step outta the way and let it happen. I don't mind if there are still some grants people can get for it if truly in need.
 
I asked two questions.

Now I have disdain for something.

Inferences and misinterpretations and unrelated labels are why no one wants to interact with you and why this will be the only one I give to you. Not even quoting the post 'cause it's not worth the effort.
 
Sadly, you're absolutely right. Western religions have not escaped their statist medieval mindset, what with the whole Judeo-Christian history and all coming from a "national religion" or "chosen people".

Few people really give our founders enough credit for freedom of religion. They had to do it to get 13 colonies with a chance to stand against Britain long-term. They knew the British would be coming again. But several colonies had state-supported religions and would not join the union unless they could keep them

Later on, people realized it was a form of double taxation to pay for government and churches when they amounted to pretty much the same "service" and states one by one just dropped the financial support and stopped bothering citizens with questions of faith.

I figure we have the technology now for really good online education, and people can get as much as they want. It is really the time when we could demand government step outta the way and let it happen. I don't mind if there are still some grants people can get for it if truly in need.

There's a lot I agree with in your post. But the problem with this situation is that the balance of power (and money) is just too lopsided. And the motives are plain. Sure, some will escape the programs of statist medievalism, but probably nowhere near a majority. Change on these terms seems to add up to a clear loss in terms of mass culture.
 
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