Jeb Bush, Nikki Haley And The Presidential Politics Of Parental Choice
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The SCEA and all the pols affiliation with the education gravy train will never allow a truly competitive system with taxpayer dollars going anywhere but a government run system.
That’s just that. Taxpayer funded lobbying/favors that create the need for even more taxpayer money is nothing new, in fact, it’s really part of the fabric of American government on all levels for quite some time now. The Republic has been loooong lost.
This is just one of many examples of it.
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the state provide the same amount of money for each student? What seems to make up the difference in schools is the tax base in each school district. In Richland and Lexington there are lots of homes, homes of higher value and businesses. In say McCormick county, there are fewer houses, houses of high value and businesses. The tax base of Richland/Lexington makes up the difference in the school fonding. Ithe appears that Rich/Lex 5 has money out the wazoo and turns out above average students. Fits arguments leaves this out of the equation.
Of course it is left out. School choice isn’t meant to be a fair and honest way of fixing education, why be fair and honest about supporting it?
Stick a fork in Haley and Bush. They’re done!
Too many people in SC get married,and have children.They’re dumb,and their kids are dumb,too.
Average IQ being 100, you quickly realize that the system is trying to turn proverbial sow ear’s into silk purses.
It’s be better to pile the money up and set it on fire in the winter so it at least keeps people warm.
If breeders actually had to pay for their kids education instead of school being a “tragedy of the commons” then things would be a lot better. Not perfect mind you, but better.
I hate elitism,but good point.There are different types of ‘intelligence’ and not all are understood,such as, dogs.There are an endless number of ways to get from,A to B…
You know what’s really dumb?
The way you use commas.
That second sentence is a fragment. :-)
Too many people in SC don’t get married and have children.
South Carolina has the tenth highest population growth rate, but according to the last Census 15 counties are declining in population. They are mostly along the “corridor of shame.
The only reliable predictor of student achievement is family background. Surprisingly, the parents don’t even have to be that involved — only have to have high expectations. Only if their child doesn’t meet their expectations, do they become involved. Many poor parents have low expectation or have bought in to the idea that it is the experts responcibility. Choice, however, forces parent involvement. Parents then take ownership of their child’s education instead of handing responsibility over to the state.
Those few children in the “corridor of shame” who are successful, go to college are unlikely to return to these blighted declining counties.
Other educated or middle-class couples don’t choose these areas to raise their families. They are not going to send their children to these schools with a predominantly poor black population no matter how much money is poured into them. It is pointless to argue whether it is racism. It doesn’t change the situation.
I believe that vochers that can be used at any school, public or private, with some reasonable open enrollment policy or some space set aside for lottery placement is the only way to encourage the kind of skilled and educated families that could spur economic development to move to these areas.
Vochers with proper rules would more successfully desegregate private schools than the courts have in the public schools in these counties.
I know some of you opponents of this will say that if you want vouchers then the private schools can’t limit enrollment. That is just a way to guarantee failure. Private schools would not participate if they were expected to accept a flood of new students or they had to refuse current students. It is disingenuous.
I voted for Molly Spearman, hoping she would govern more conservatively. Instead, she has become a tax and spend big government educrat.
She seems to constantly be attending social functions and collecting awards from these Education Establishment. Expect nothing from her except larger budgets.
That race was but one more of many in SC where your choices came down to voting for a turd or a piece of shit.
So, if I understand correctly, this website opposes public tax money subsidizing big business and industry, because that’s anti-free-market… but advocates for public tax money subsidizing parents who have the means to make up the difference in cost of elite high-dollar private schools for their children, because that’s… um… *pro* free market?
When is that boat going to be paid off Willie?