Do you think we should use taxpayer money to fund private schooling?

[lionsgators]

no. I don't think we should extort monies from anyone to educate anyone's kids. so I don't support public indoctrination camps either.

[natalie469]

Originally Posted by InformedConsent

And that right there is why we will always have unequal access to a high quality education in the U.S. Poor students will forever be handicapped by being forced to attend their abysmal local public schools.

I don't think you can entirely blame it on the school they attend. Parent involvement is a key element too. But some parents have to work 2 jobs just to make ends meet. So they are not there for their kids to supervise them. It's not their fault, it's just how it is. But if kids aren't supervised then they tend to get into trouble and their grades reflect that. If a child wants to truly learn, they will do that no matter where they attend school.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by natalie469

I don't think you can entirely blame it on the school they attend. Parent involvement is a key element too. But some parents have to work 2 jobs just to make ends meet. So they are not there for their kids to supervise them. It's not their fault, it's just how it is. But if kids aren't supervised then they tend to get into trouble and their grades reflect that. If a child wants to truly learn, they will do that no matter where they attend school.

Facts bear that out to be totally untrue.

Students who are motivated and wish to learn NEED to be removed from public schools in which such does not happen. The only way to accomplish that is to institute universal vouchers/school choice. That's been proven time and time again. Private and charter schools do not perform as badly as inner-city public schools.