re: #657 Obdicut

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:

[Link: 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.

Vouchers have a shot at giving some parents more options. Which could be a great start to real changes. And it’s not an anti intellectual /Tea Party takeover that took LAUSD to the low academic level it suffers. That goes way back to when, like today, the Dems were/are in charge. And I just do not see LAUSD adopting these better methods anytime soon.