Stupid in America...

[Bzzzz]

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How Lack of Choice Cheats Our Kids Out of a Good Education
By JOHN STOSSEL

Jan. 13, 2006 — "Stupid in America" is a nasty title for a program about public education, but some nasty things are going on in America's public schools and it's about time we face up to it.

Kids at New York's Abraham Lincoln High School told me their teachers are so dull students fall asleep in class. One student said, "You see kids all the time walking in the school smoking weed, you know. It's a normal thing here."

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338



So after privatization,how would market forces(as if they were naturally occuring phenomna),affect the quality of education????

[il_lilac]

1. they have a poll

over 83% say yes, vouchers and school choice would improve education.Only 16% say more funding for public schools is the answer. Slightly freeped I would say

[Deja Q]

2. If it's profit-based, that means anything that makes the most profit at

any given point gets the special treatment.

That's not good. Everything should have value; leave it up to the students to realize what they want to do than be told "this is profitable, not that, so don't go there."

Soul vs profiteering. Tell me which is the more human concept.

[Bzzzz]

4. I am not sure what your point is...

It seems that you state that the education should have "value", however it should not create a profit. That seems to me to be a paradox.
I am not sure that fear of profiteering is an acceptable excuse for the continued exploitation of our children via the current school systems that have proven their inability to perform effectively.

I just think the current system wastes a lot of money to provide a poor product.

[Benhurst]

3. I guess it is Stupid America, all right.

Where else would a fascist like John Stossel have a program on a major broadcast network?

[JAbuchan08]

5. I saw Stossel pumping up this program last week

he stated that our schools were failing even though we spend a lot of money on them. Then he goes on to say that "school choice" is the answer (paraphrase), without so much as an explanation. It's just a propaganda piece built around a conservative "given." Perhaps Americans are stupid, because we set a poor example for respecting intellect. After all if anyone knows too much about a given subject they are probably a liberal elitist.