There were not as many responses to the 2nd post as the first. But, I think that something is starting to develop.
(Purpose.) What's wrong with the way public schools are used?
The first thing to fix about schools is the PERCEPTION of the value of schools, whether the kids think they can REALLY be successful, and to take it seriously. If you dont
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Well, if we educate most to follow I guess that will be true. There are more ways to lead than heading a corporation. The things I list would be good for a plumber with a passion for establishing communities gardens to know. It would be a good level of knowledge for a hair dresser who runs her own business and goes to trade conventions.
--I don't know why you are getting sidetracked in to if people are forced to learn. This is what I think the purpose of schools should be. Clearly they can't reach everyone. But, I think we could reach most. The rest will learn to read and how to add and subtrct.
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Coercion is important because once you give up on coercion, you realize that telling other people what you think they should learn is coercive. Your purposes involve judgments like "appreciating art". I'm sorry, but you will never be able to force people to appreciate art. The best you can do is make it available in case they want to know about it.
If you think the purpose of schools is to make people think and believe things, then you won't get anywhere, because coercion annoys people.
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I went to a public school where everyone had that kind of education, and everyone benefited from it. I taught at a private school where everyone had that kind of education and everyone benefited from it.
In the poor kid's public school they did not have that kind of education and there were students who would have benefited from t, but their development was stunted. So, how can we tell who need this kind of education and who doesn't need it.
What kind of education do you think your child should have?
Your purposes involve judgments like "appreciating art". I'm sorry, but you will never be able to force people to appreciate art. The best you can do is make it available in case they want to know about it.This is not the best you can do. You can also model what art appreciation looks like so from young age they ( ... )
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I think your opinion on Christian schools would depend on the local area more than just the fact that it's a Christian school.
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If there was more money so there could be more schools, so rather than having one big high school in a suburb to service the students (which would focus on academic) you could have one that was academically focused, one that was trade focused and one that was arts focused then you would have what you desire. However, this is shown to have pretty horrible outcomes. What you actually need is schools to be funded so they can offer all of these things on the one campus.
I'll give you one thing, at least your private schools don't get four times the amount of federal funding over public schools that ours do (although they get no state funding and public schools are mostly funded by the state, hence the extra federal funds to "pick up the gap").
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