[net.politics] Elimination of public schools

decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (03/14/84)

	    However, if public schools are eliminated, then the
    resultant tax drain on the parents will be lessened, easing the
    crunch.  (I come from a lower-middle class background, and went
    to private schools for all but three years of my education, as
    did my brothers and sisters.)

But some people wouldn't have the opportunity to go to school at all.
We would have lower-priced schools for folks with not much money,
and these would probably be inferior in quality to higher-priced schools.
People without money need skills, so that they can work and contribute,
instead of not working and uncontributing.

Dave Decot

nrh@inmet.UUCP (03/17/84)

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inmet!nrh    Mar 16 10:34:00 1984

	***** inmet:net.politics / cwruecmp!decot /  5:23 pm  Mar 13, 1984

		    However, if public schools are eliminated, then the
	    resultant tax drain on the parents will be lessened, easing the
	    crunch.  (I come from a lower-middle class background, and went
	    to private schools for all but three years of my education, as
	    did my brothers and sisters.)

	But some people wouldn't have the opportunity to go to school at all.
	We would have lower-priced schools for folks with not much money,
	and these would probably be inferior in quality to higher-priced schools.
	People without money need skills, so that they can work and contribute,
	instead of not working and uncontributing.

	Dave Decot
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That some people would not have the opportunity to go to school at all
is not much different from what happens in public schools.  
Anyone happen to know the literacy rate for graduates of inner-city
PUBLIC schools, vs PRIVATE schools?
I seem to recall some pretty scary figures from California's public school
system....