- 04 Mar 2004 15:31
#117922
Complicity: giving billions of dollars worth of drill bits and cannibal recipes
to Jeffrey Dahmer
I understand that many people want to raise the level of education in the US and in Canada as well. But school vouchers? This seems a way to help the rich to finance private schools, to pull from funding public schools. The way it will work is all wealthy middle class families who now spend 10 grand on private schooling will get 5 grand back. And this money will come out of public school funding which will slowly rot. Poor people [and there are more and more of them in America] will have a voucher for the worst kind of public schools, which then will be completely devoid of children of varied social backgrounds. That is what this kind of 'choice' provides lower income children.
I have an alternative idea. To make education truly fair, give every newborn child a voucher and let them chose their parents. This will allow for a truly fair meritocracy.
Or, and I know this sounds crazy, chose children who are the smartest to go to the most demanding schools regardless of their parent's income or capacity or willingness to pay. Imagine if the smartest children all got to go the best schools! That's what happens in Canada and in France, where even university is free [France] or cheap [Canada], and enrollment is a function of your marks, not your parents trust fund.
I have an alternative idea. To make education truly fair, give every newborn child a voucher and let them chose their parents. This will allow for a truly fair meritocracy.
Or, and I know this sounds crazy, chose children who are the smartest to go to the most demanding schools regardless of their parent's income or capacity or willingness to pay. Imagine if the smartest children all got to go the best schools! That's what happens in Canada and in France, where even university is free [France] or cheap [Canada], and enrollment is a function of your marks, not your parents trust fund.
Complicity: giving billions of dollars worth of drill bits and cannibal recipes
to Jeffrey Dahmer