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Subject: Re: Let's privatise schools

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Siannach

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Date Posted: 23:47:11 07/05/02 Fri
In reply to: Sadie 's message, "Re: Let's privatise schools" on 23:02:06 07/05/02 Fri

Even if special needs kids get extra dollars, if you do away with the public system, you are going to end up with kids that won't be accepted in schools. If your child is a low academic performer, are you going to be satisfied with only being able to send him to the schools that no one else wants? Atleast with our public schools (in Canada) you can send your severly disabled child to public school and whereever you send him, he gets what he needs.

And Sadie has a good point: if there are only religious schools in your area, you have no choice at all.

>>Ok, but my suggestion is to do away with public
>>schools entirely.
>>
>>Astrid
>
>But I don't see how that would eliminate the problems
>I was referring to. Instead of spending $x per
>student in the public schools, you give the family
>that much per kid, right? That figure is based on the
>average per-student expenditure. For students who
>actually cost more than that, what's the incentive for
>schools to take them? Aren't those kids just going to
>end up in the lesser schools, be they public or
>private.
>
>And in the absence of ANY public schools, you'd still
>certainly have the problem of religious dominance in
>some communities. Churches have their own money to
>back the schools, so they're in a great position to
>take voucher money and offer a better-than-average
>education for it. There may be other groups that can
>do that too, but not everywhere. And what do you do
>about church-state issues if there's no public school
>to choose from?

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