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Originally Posted by AngryPacifist
i think it will almost take a socialistic way to fix the dept. of education... or the public school system...
the decline in schooling is due to the separation from middle and lower class America (majority) having their own schools, and the rich having theirs...
when public schools were made, the rich began removing themselves from equal schools, to a system where their privilege can be more directly passed on to the individual. now the best education in america can only be had by the very rich... and the resources that were previously keeping the lower classes up, are now not available. basically education will continue to flat line, the further we are from the separation of rich from poor... where it will eventually plateau. of course the constant messing with the system for better and worse makes this less exact.
with the current system... we have a whole lot of bureaucracy that the money and power must flow through... and the education of the district is in the hand of the whole country... i think addressing these issues will help, but i'm far from positive on this issue
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That first line....it's supposed to be ironic, right?
You do know that in America, the socialists have been running the schools since the mid-1960s, right?
The truly rich have always been able to remove themselves from the hoi palloi. "Public school" has been a dirty word among them since the middle of the 19th century in America, and before in England and other parts of Europe.
Forcing the rich to send their children to public schools is indeed, the socialist (actually, communist) best-answer. In fact, that's the socialist answer to just about everything. Socialists like you believe in equality of OUTCOME, while rational thinkers believe in equality of OPPORTUNITY.
And it wouldn't work. The truly rich would simply send their kids out of the country. Schools for their kids would pop up in Canada, in the Carib., even in Mexico. What would you do? Ban travel out of the country for children of "the rich" from ages 5-18?
Rather than trying to bring "the rich" down, why not try to raise everyone else?
Oh...of course...because that would not be good socialist thinking!
Tokie