01-04-2017, 12:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2017, 12:38 AM by Warren Dew.)
(01-03-2017, 04:03 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-01-2017, 06:57 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Actually, what your sister apparently said supports my original point perfectly: public schools can't teach efficiently, because teachers in public schools have to keep the government happy. Switch to vouchers that parents can use for private schooling, and the time can be spent teaching instead of pleasing politicians.
Most of the meddling I've encountered raising children on my own has come from politicians trying to overlay their belief structure on the schools. In Virginia, that's almost universally conservative with an Evangelical spin. The GOP also likes to cut school funding, since the schools teach "blasphemy".
Same here, except that the politicians here push the liberal progressive belief structure. And the leftist mayor has pushed through a property tax override to fund a gold plated new high school building so his wannabe athlete kids can have amazing phys. ed. facilities, with no benefit to academics.
Wouldn't we both be better off with vouchers to private schools focused purely on nonpartisan academic excellence?