Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
On Saturday 29 April 2006 21:36, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Every single thing you describe would work *better* if education was
> completely private. Why dork around with having the government track
> where your child's assigned funds should end up if you change his/her
> school? If all schools were private, you could even decide to spend
> more or less. Don't like the school Johnny is in? Go to a different
> one and start paying tuition there instead of the old one. See, no
> government involvement necessary.
Can't afford to go to a school at all? Sorry, you don't get an education,
because it's a privilege of those who can afford to pay for it out of pocket
rather than a right as a citizen.
Sorry, I prefer knowing that everyone in my society has an opportunity for an
education by virtue of their being a member of the society.
--
Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42
larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea,
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession
of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas
Jefferson
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