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Do you support educational vouchers in schools?
Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so parents can
send their kids to private schools, or to use that money to fix up the public schools? Bob Coleslaw |
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"Bob Coleslaw" wrote in
: Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so parents can send their kids to private schools, or to use that money to fix up the public schools? vouchers are a really bad idea. i do NOT want my tax dollars used to fund any type of private school, especially not any flavor of parochial school. i have no issues with private schools, my kid attends one, but i want my taxes to fix the public schools for the kids who can't go to private school for whatever reason. vouchers may help the elite, but they'll hurt the kids who need better schools the most. lee |
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Bob Coleslaw wrote: Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so parents can send their kids to private schools, or to use that money to fix up the public schools? On this question, I have no problems. The public schools, as they are run, are hopeless. The idea that children should be with their age groups, instead of being taught to the best of their abilities, whatever they may be, is antithetic to real learning. Even the idea of a child being in a "grade" needs to be scrapped. Also, most of the teachers can no longer teach concepts. One does not learn to understand concepts by memorization and other rote material. The not too strong mathematics courses of most of a century ago have been scrapped in favor of teaching how to get answers where the questions are not even known, instead of incorporating the conceptual advances of the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. Attempts to teach the concepts to teachers have been largely unsuccessful; they know too much that ain't so. At this time, we do not have a good idea how to teach well, so we will need to have lack of control. There are now very few academic private schools. Most will continue to use the public schools while we find out how to do even a fair job of teaching, and I suspect we will end up with mainly electronic schools, not computer programs. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 |
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"Herman Rubin" wrote in message ... In article , Bob Coleslaw wrote: Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so parents can send their kids to private schools, or to use that money to fix up the public schools? On this question, I have no problems. The public schools, as they are run, are hopeless. That's for sure. They are huge money pits and the administration and teachers just want to get bigger budgets. Put some discipline back in the school, eliminate tenure and fire the bad teachers, and get on with education at half the cost. |
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enigma wrote: "Bob Coleslaw" wrote in : Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so parents can send their kids to private schools, or to use that money to fix up the public schools? vouchers are a really bad idea. i do NOT want my tax dollars used to fund any type of private school, especially not any flavor of parochial school. i have no issues with private schools, my kid attends one, but i want my taxes to fix the public schools for the kids who can't go to private school for whatever reason. vouchers may help the elite, but they'll hurt the kids who need better schools the most. lee At this time, NO student who is capable of getting a good degree in mathematics or science or engineering or agriculture or economics is getting even a fair high school education corresponding to his abilities. The ones who need the better schools need to be removed from the public schools and taught sound subject matter by those who understand this, and not warehoused with their "peers". -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 |
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enigma wrote: *"Bob Coleslaw" wrote in : * * Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so * parents can send their kids to private schools, or to use * that money to fix up the public schools? * * vouchers are a really bad idea. i do NOT want my tax dollars *used to fund any type of private school, especially not any *flavor of parochial school. * i have no issues with private schools, my kid attends one, *but i want my taxes to fix the public schools for the kids who *can't go to private school for whatever reason. As the parent of a private school kid (and ultimately, I expect, three private school kids) I completely agree. I don't want to take away my support of the public school system. -- Hillary Israeli, VMD Lafayette Hill/PA/USA/Earth "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." --Groucho Marx |
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In article , enigma says...
The reason you crossposted to rec.woodworking is......?? Banty |
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hey...why are you posting on rec woodworking?....perhaps you might need
some higher education so you will know how to post correctly |
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In article , Herman Rubin says...
In article , enigma wrote: "Bob Coleslaw" wrote in : Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so parents can send their kids to private schools, or to use that money to fix up the public schools? vouchers are a really bad idea. i do NOT want my tax dollars used to fund any type of private school, especially not any flavor of parochial school. i have no issues with private schools, my kid attends one, but i want my taxes to fix the public schools for the kids who can't go to private school for whatever reason. vouchers may help the elite, but they'll hurt the kids who need better schools the most. lee At this time, NO student who is capable of getting a good degree in mathematics or science or engineering or agriculture or economics is getting even a fair high school education corresponding to his abilities. The ones who need the better schools need to be removed from the public schools and taught sound subject matter by those who understand this, and not warehoused with their "peers". And vouchers will do - what - - exactly - to fix this? Banty |
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you might think that folks who knows so much about the state of education
would also know how to set their computers up so as to not cross post their crap all over USENET... "Herman Rubin" wrote in message ... In article , Bob Coleslaw wrote: Is it better for the government to give out vouchers so parents can send their kids to private schools, or to use that money to fix up the public schools? On this question, I have no problems. The public schools, as they are run, are hopeless. The idea that children should be with their age groups, instead of being taught to the best of their abilities, whatever they may be, is antithetic to real learning. Even the idea of a child being in a "grade" needs to be scrapped. Also, most of the teachers can no longer teach concepts. One does not learn to understand concepts by memorization and other rote material. The not too strong mathematics courses of most of a century ago have been scrapped in favor of teaching how to get answers where the questions are not even known, instead of incorporating the conceptual advances of the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. Attempts to teach the concepts to teachers have been largely unsuccessful; they know too much that ain't so. At this time, we do not have a good idea how to teach well, so we will need to have lack of control. There are now very few academic private schools. Most will continue to use the public schools while we find out how to do even a fair job of teaching, and I suspect we will end up with mainly electronic schools, not computer programs. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 |
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