An "all private school system?" Why not?
You tell me - why not a system of education that is totally private. Read the articles (1 and 2) and leave a comment.
Labels: Mississippi education
posted by Matt Friedeman at
6:56 PM
7 Comments:
Hello Matt,
I belive education starts at home. Parents need to me more involed there childerns education,ie respect for other people, property or good morals and values. I belive that we need to teach our childern and our grand childern that just because some one is different, it is no reason to dislike or hate that person. Also Matt if you should run for office, I would vote for you in a heart beat. May God bless you and your family. Keep up the good fight.
Yours truly,
Randy Russell
If all school systems were private, then would not the problems that are in the public school system be present there as well?
txsrbReading through the article we find the usual suspect:
"Today's left-liberal faith despises the Bible, Judaism and Christianity, family life, and "the patriarchy." It believes in a "globalism" that holds divisions within nations (race and class divisions) to be terribly important and divisions among nations to be trivial. It believes in multinational government and (naturally) hates patriotism on principle, just as it does Christianity, with all the fervent hatred that new faiths reserve for older ones. Its fundamental principle is that men and women are not just equal but interchangeable.
This left-liberalism is no mere political ideology. It is beyond doubt a religion, and has been since the 1930s."
Again, it's all about the "evils" of liberalism. If your public school was in Berkley, then you might have a case. But if your public school is in Brookhaven or any of the hundreds of school districts in this state, then I believe that you would be hard pressed to find teachers like this in Mississippi.....at least in the county where I live.
Private Schools? I guess you never had to endure Sister Mary and the other sisters of perpetual pain in Private Catholic School.
I'll take public school with all it's warts.
Privatize them NOW!
I believe this would inject an element of competition between the schools who then would have to use “draw cards” to attract parents. They would be saying stuff like “we have better teachers here, we can guarantee better safety here, better test scores here and more parental involvement here.
WOW, wouldn’t that be great!
Competition is a great thing in America…
If only one person in the whole USA knew how to make coffee…guess what? You’d be paying $5.00 for a cup of crappy coffee instead of $4.00(ha, ha that’s a joke)…but you get the point.
Later man…
Here we go with this perfect world thinking again. Its like saying do away with the police so everyone will behave. This idea would be so flawed I do not know where to begin. I will be the first to say that public schools are not perfect. But in my family alone, it produced 2 Ph.Ds, and 3 Master's students. So I would put our public school education up against anyone privately educated. Secondly, people with Matt's thinking will never(ever,ever) respect public schools. Public schools and private schools are just different. They cater to different segments of society. Same for home schoolers. Home schoolers are educating their own kids for the most part and do not have the restraints that would be involved if those were not their kids. If Matt's door was open to any and everyone like public schools are, his comparison would be valid. Public schools have to take all comers. Regardless of what their home situation is or how involved their parents are. That is a major difference with home schooling and private schools. Then the logistical aspect of the entire thing has not been explored either. If the number of private schools were doubled, they could only accomodate about 10 percent of the kids in failing schools. I am all for vouchers, but as proposed, all they would do is take the best of the best from public school and the public school dilemna would still exist. The most interesting thing about this is that if government is so bad and wrong, why take their money? Nothing is stopping churchs or individuals from getting together and starting a school. Peoples' taxes do go for public education, and they should have a say to how that money is used. But in the meantime, what is stopping all these people that care so much from doing something? Nothing. Of course they would have to follow some guidelines, but that is expected. This crowd wants to be critical without walking a mile in public school teachers' shoes.
MATT,
I just got around to reading these comments and I must say I appreciate what that writer "aedney" had to say I couldn't agree with her more. You may not ever think of it like this but do you realize that the public school system is one of the largest mission fields there is. Many children are exposed to Christian influence for the first time in their life in the public schools through some of the wonderful Christian teachers we have. There are also other ways that children are being reached for Christ in the school, one is other students that have come to know the lord. What more?
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