Sending your child to a different school is still for the greater good because that child will get an education, more often, a better one.
Her brother is Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a notorious mercenary company. Her father-in-law, Richard DeVos, co-founded Amway ‒ a multi-level marketing company that mainly sells health, beauty and home care products ‒ and also owns the Orlando Magic basketball team in Florida.
Sending your child to a different school is still for the greater good because that child will get an education, more often, a better one.
And good on you for voting yest to maintain/increase the school budgets. I also do the same/did the same when I was unmarried without children.
Sending your child to a different school is still for the greater good because that child will get an education, more often, a better one.
And good on you for voting yest to maintain/increase the school budgets. I also do the same/did the same when I was unmarried without children.
I always thought US looked down on UK's class system. Didn't realize it was actually jealous and wanted one of its own.
But they are more profitable. Which is the point it seems.
Charter schools in most states are, by law, not-for-profit.
Though anecdotal - I currently work at one of the top public school districts in my state. We constantly get students coming in from charter schools throughout the area. A lot of them are then referred for special education services because they simply were not taught the appropriate curriculum at their charter school and they are so far behind grade level.
Charter schools aren't the answer.
charter schools also greatly underserve special needs students, which adds to the problem. they only have to take care of the least expensive sections of the student population, which leaves the costliest kids in underfunded public systems.
In places where charter applications are greater than seats available, by law, they're required to have lotteries for the seats.You're missing the point. The district my wife teaches in right now is over 2000 kids over capacity. The schools districts gets a set amount of money regardless of being over capacity but if 500 of that 2000 suddenly go to a charter school the district loses 500 kids worth of funding meanwhile they still have 1500 more kids than they were originally funded for anyways.
Also the charter schools can freely select who they admit and don't admit and can also freely let kids go. 9/10 they come back to public schools underperforming and it then reflects poorly on the public schools who then get less funding due to test scores.
This is literally a whole web of issues it's not just good schools/bad schools more kids/less kids.
Either are charities or sports teams...
except they can be run by for-profit management companies and employ tons of for-profit contractors for all different roles, none of which is publicly accountableCharter schools in most states are, by law, not-for-profit.
and in the process of doing so you hurt the public school system by removing funding and ensuring that the people who can't afford to leave it get less for their tax dollars
You ignored my post about funding.
Also just going to a better school already happens with people that are more well off. They don't like the school district they move to a better school district. This doesn't change anything other than taking funding from already underfunded schools. The money could be used to make more public schools and better fund the already existing schools. The only difference is the money goes to corporations instead of the public as a whole in the form of better schools.
You assume the will get a better one. Did ITT tech and these private colleges teach us nothing?
Either are charities or sports teams...
except they can be run by for-profit management companies and employ tons of for-profit contractors for all different roles, none of which is publicly accountable
there are cases of the same people serving on the boards of the not-for-profit school and its for-profit management company simultaneouslyYes, individual employees earn salaries and thus profit. The entities themselves are non-profit. There's no shareholders, no dividends, no profits divvied up among investors or stakeholders beyond salaries.
it's almost like unrestrained capitalism naturally funnels money from the general populace as they're driven ever deeper into poverty and into the hands of a select few.
Then we pass a lay that requires accountability for private schools, which is way overdue.
there are cases of the same people serving on the boards of the not-for-profit school and its for-profit management company simultaneously
Charter schools in most states are, by law, not-for-profit.
Much of the needed oversight now is simply lack of enforcement of current regs due to the underfunded nature of charter authorizers.
There's massive evidence based studies on how it makes public schools underperform because they only have to worry about minimum standards
How dare you say that.
The market, being a deity, acts in the interest of all.
Human collusion and greed are only ever the results of evil gubments and regulations.
People will have Prosperity™ when we deregulate everything, privatize everything, and get rid of all social safety nets.
TBH the total taxes I pay for schools is pretty low and I do believe if you remove students from a school that school needs less funding, just like if you add children they need more funding.
If they're underfunded then the government needs to step in and add that funding from the budget which I think could be done if they pull a little from Military spending.
I'm talking about general education not some sleazy wannabe college.
The fact that the NFL is still a non profit baffles me and points to some massive flaws of our system.
Then we pass a lay that requires accountability for private schools, which is way overdue.
there's also evidence that suggests it works.
a study on sweden's school voucher system:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272704000404
no one here on gaf is going to be able to determine whether or not school vouchers are actually positive or negative. point being, there is ample evidence on both sides. to get riled up in hyperbole about how the american education system is now going to be in shambles due to school vouchers isn't just a stretch of the imagination -- it's nonsensical and illogical.
So, increase the gap of the privileged and stay in control through power and education opportunities.
Look, I get where you're coming from. Choice sounds great. The problem is that someone just got put in a position that is wholey on the business side of it. You're talking about regulations and funding with a political party that wants less government ran organizations and less regulations. The system has shown to be very exploitable and left areas in complete shambles(which this woman specifically has done:NYTimes)
The system the way it already is screws over underperforming and underfunded schools. All this will do is make that gap worse and worse.
Simple enough when both parents are working 40-50 hours a week.True and this got a little OT. Since we can't rely on the schools to fully educate our children I guess it's on parents to pick up the slack and help their children because the system is broken.
Its over.... its fucking over.Her younger brother started Blackwater USA and she is director of the Acton Institute. One of the main sponsors of the Institute are the Koch Brothers.
Fun times ahead.
Simple enough when both parents are working 40-50 hours a week.
She's also married to Amway's heir Dick DeVos and is super duper concerned about religious education and values.Her younger brother started Blackwater USA and she is director of the Acton Institute. One of the main sponsors of the Institute are the Koch Brothers.
Fun times ahead.
I know this may sound reductive but that's not an excuse to neglect your child's education if public education is insufficient.
This... so much this.I mean, I would be okay with this if they just came out and said, "Fuck climate change, fuck education, and fuck equality. We're gonna be the last generation and we're gonna live it up while the whole thing burns around us."
I can get on board with that. I'm a terrible person and a shameless hedonist. I just can't abide the sort of monumental stupidity that insists there's any sort of future in this course.
Not calling you or anyone else out, but people will have prosperity when they quit blaming others for their problems and get their shit together. Prosperity is not some unattainable goal that you have to become rich. It's making smart choices with your life and preparing accordingly. Don't have kids before you can afford them, don't fuck without a condom just cause she "says she's on the pill", don't go into CC debt, don't buy a brand new car when you can barely afford your apartment, don't waste money on bullshit that doesn't matter until you have that money to waste.
Corporations are built on the pursuit of profit and that drive only increases when they become public. That market will never change.
you're talking about personal responsibility in a discussion about systemic problems
it's like someone going into a thread about a national poverty study and saying "just work hard and get a good job if you don't want to be poor anymore"
Ah, the simple answers. Always infallible.
Tell people to continue to make "smart choices" as those are pulled further and further away from them, leading to the opposite of prosperity: precarity. Pray tell, how does that work with education getting fucked hardcore with the potentiality of this candidate being in charge of Education? What smart choices can be made when it's in the hand of the same greedy fucks that have ruined things for the public for decades? Is your answer free will?
at least it's not Carson
Someone who dislikes public schools will now run them. More public school funding cuts incoming so shitty charters schools that barely have to prove themselves can get more funding!
living in Ohio has shown me how shitty most charter schools and these voucher programs are and it is crazy how they get so much money and don't feel to need to prove results and clearly don't give a shit about the kids. Just businesses trying to get rich off kids and desperate parents.
True the dems are awful on this too. Podesta is a TFA clown and they also support charters. Silver lining may be this gets SO bad that the DNC can reorganize around supporting teacher unions for oncePrivatize healthcare? You got it.
Privatize education? You got it.
Privatize everything? You got it.
But hey, at least he's honest about the privatization! Hillary would have emailed or Benghazi'd.
Also they promote class segregation since all the rich kids leave public schools and poor kids see their education tank.
Vouchers have been a stunning success. Can't wait for them at the national level. Solves all of the problems.
Simple!