Matthias Julius wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> writes: > > >>Matthias Julius wrote: >> >>>Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>>For $200, you can get the Robinson Curriculum, a complete K-12 home >>>>study kit, except math books. Math books are $50 each, new, approx >>>>one per year depending on student speed and aptitude of course. >>>> >>>>So even at the slowest, full 13 years worth of math books and the rest >>>>of it, is $850. Total. And you get to resell or reuse the math books. >>> >>> >>>How do you do that when you have to go to work? >>> >> >>How do you do it *now* when you have to go to work? > > > I send them to school? > Then that's what you would do with private education. > >>>>The public schools in the United States spend MORE THAN $10,000 (TEN >>>>THOUSAND DOLLARS) per student EACH YEAR, EVERY YEAR, and it's only >>>>going up. >>> >>> >>>Why is that so? Just because it is a public school? Why is a public >>>school by definition so different from a private school? Is there no >>>way of making a public school more (cost-)efficient? >>> >> >>No. That is the point. By definition, government has no incentive to >>be efficient. If it did, half the problems (number pulled from my hat) >>that exist in American government would likely cease to exist. If >>schools were run more like the Postal Service, that would be a step in >>the right direction. But wait, we actually have to *pay* postage. So >>if people want to continue to be able to send their kids to school for >>"free," there is no way to make it efficient. > > > I don't think any government likes to be beaten for increasing debt or > raising taxes. And improving the public school system could be a very > good reason for reelection. > > What the public school system lacks is an equivalent of revenue, some > benchmark other than the grades of its graduates. Those are cheap. Yes. Please see my previous comments about the Postal Service as an example of how this *could* work. I still maintain that all private is the way to go, but there are other ways it could work. As long as the proposed method doesn't involve forcible redistribution of wealth, I am all for it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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