rfischer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ray Fischer) wrote in
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> Deuteros <deuteros@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>rfischer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ray Fischer) wrote in
>>> Deuteros <deuteros@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> rfischer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ray Fischer) wrote in
>
>>>>>> Which, of course, fails to explain why the first schools in this
>>>>>> country were private and the existence of thousands of private
>>>>>> schools in existence today.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's asily explained. In the first case the vast majority of
>>>>> people never got an education. Fine when you're a farmer with 10
>>>>> acres, but unacceptable on today's society. In the second case
>>>>> it's explained by the fact that maybe 1 in 10 actually attents a
>>>>> private school, and even at that there is little evidence that
>>>>> private schools are any better.
>>>>
>>>> The fact remains that kids who were educated in private schools or
>>>> were homeschooled consistently outperform kids who went to public
>>>> school.
>>>
>>> Which is explained by the fact that private schools only take the
>>> best students with the most involved parents.
>>
>>Actually, many private schools end up taking the kids who get kicked
>>out of public school.
>
> You are a liar.
>
Be that as it may, your discussion off-topic for both the groups in the
comp.* hierarchy you included AND alt.drugs.hard. Not to be a netiquette
nazi, but do try to check your newsgroups line and make sure that you are
posting in places which care about this mind-numbingly dull discussion of
what to do with children.
(The answer is - screw the children. Children are not the future, they are
not blessed, and they are not a precious resource. Children are
freeloading
drains on the economy - we cater to their needs far too much, and waste
too
much time trying to educate the little bastards when we should be kicking
them out of the house at 18 and into the work-force or army.
Private school? Give me a ****ing break - your kids aren't worth 5 bucks a
year, let alone 5 grand. Let alone one red cent of my tax money - I want
my
tax money to go to worthwhile endeavours, like colonizing Titan, or
stamping out malaria. Not teaching kids crap they should already know by
the time they are 14, like how to read and do arithmetic.
Only about 10 percent of the population is worth educating - the other 90
%
are expendable labour. We delude that 90 % when we let them go to high
school. By 14, people are pretty much as smart as they are ever going to
be
- the ones who actually want to learn will learn wherever you put them
with
or without teachers (the most over-rated profession out there - the best
teacher out there is a library card and/or the internet). The rest, be
they
rich or poor, black and white, should go learn a useful trade. And do it
the old-fa****on way - through working.
So, this discussion is pointless - public and private schools are both
pathetic. Their only point at the moment is to take the bloody
crotchdroppings off the parent's hands for 8 blessed hours a day. That's
fine - but all you need is libraries for that - send them all to the
library for those 8 hours and let those with brains read what they want,
while the ones who are not interested can sit quietly on pain of, yup you
guessed it, cor****eal punishment, which is the only thing the little
monsters truly understand.
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