On Apr 29, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
Christopher Nelson wrote:That's your right, but unless you can *gaurantee* that I can, for no cost, send my children to a 100% secular school with decent teaching,there is no way I can support abolishing public schools. And if you cangaurantee that, where does the line between public and private come?Uh, why such a high bar? It's like you're getting public schooling for free. They cost in taxes. You, supposedly, pay taxes. Some of the worst public schools are also some of the most highly funded public schools. IE,the most costly.
I'm always suspicious of the "some of..." arguments. They're by definition anecdotal and reek of sampling bias.
The Charter School movement is now 10+ years old. How do these privatized schools compare? What are their performance metrics?