re: #629 Rightwingconspirator

You needed the option of a better school. And it was not there. The argument the anti voucher folks do not have a good answer for. We need to stop wish-casting better public school results.

The voucher folks don’t have an answer either, you know. There’s about five million out of seventy-five million students at private schools. Where are all these other private schools going to appear from?

Have you read this? This is an answer to how we can actually get good public education:

news.bbc.co.uk

Finland. They hold teachers in high esteem, have high requirements for them, and give them freedom and latitude.

And these results work whether they’re on ethnic Finns or Somali immigrants— the teachers rise to the challenge.

We have a gigantic anti-intellectual streak in our country, we have a fierce antipathy to science, and we’ve got to realize how much that is hurting our educational system.