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Originally Posted by Chan
At least not in the United States (yet).
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Nor have I ever heard any legitimate proposals to do so. Let's keep the anti-government fearmongering to a minimum.
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But many private schools do better than public schools in providing education.
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True. My insinct is to see what can be done about that in the public system, rather than dismantle it. Higher standards, better review....things that our fearless leadership think is too difficult to tackle.
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I'll make you a deal: I'll vote for you to become head of the coming world government if you implement the International Baccalaureate Organisation curriculum as the minimum standard for curriculum (International Baccalaureate), let the organization enforce the standard, and leave everything else up to local communities (even if that means leaving governments out of it).
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Not bad at all! I am certainly for radically raising the bar, rather than lowering it so that every kid feels special. I hate that New Age touchy-feely garbage.
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It's obvious we disagree on this point. But if you take from parents this basic responsibility, how many other things are you going to take away from the parents?
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Ah, the legendary slippery slope argument. The answer:
nothing. It's has ALWAYS been the parents responsibility to get the kids to school, NOT to teach them, as well. That's what trained, qualified teachers are for.
What I am going for is a situation where EVERY kid has radically improved education. The voucher and other ideas I have heard simply do not address the fact that we can't tolerate ANY school underperforming, and having parents endlessly "shopping" for K-12 education seems like it's missing the whole point, and leaves schools to try to figure out how to do it on whatever budgets they got. I'd rather they had anything they needed, MORE than, so we could get arts and music and PE back into the curriculum.
Now, my ideas involve really big changes like busting the unions, yearly performance reviews of teachers, more standardization, and major investments in infrastructures and facilities. I want American schoolkids to whip up on any international comparison (and I bet I would really piss a lot of comfortable people off to acheive that.)