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My experience with the public school system in upstate NY over the last 21 years has proven to me that, without the infusion of competition that a voucher system would inject into primary education, we will continue to get the same old, leftard driven intitution of underachievers and tenured hacks that we have now.
The solution, we are told by the public schools, is to give them more money, which they then pay out as higher salaries to their current and future tenured failures.
For the pubic school to succeed does not require that your kids actually graduate with something resembling a basic education and critical thinking skills. What marks success for the public school operator is hitting those state’s regents numbers, no matter that the numbers they report are cooked by forcing as many of the kids who need more help (that would actually require someone with teaching skills to provide help for them) out of school.
My school system prepares its graduates so well, that 90 percent of them drop out of college in the first year; that includes, in particular that includes, the upper 10% of the graduates.
Public schools have become a haven for degreed, professional union stiffs, putting in their time to retire and please don’t actually ask them to teach.
If you can take your money where your kid goes to school, then schools will go after it and your kid. If they can’t deliver success, then they lose in the marketplace. And that is a good thing.