I think you are a bit delusional on this topic. Schools are like any other business, they are only as effective as the clientele they serve

Giving WalMart shoppers gift cards to Nordstroms will not magically improve their behavior, nor the environment at the new store they frequent, or the WalMart they left behind.

Look at any old neighborhood. As the landlords began accepting govt "vouchers" the neighborhoods died (see Detroit). It did not change their poor decisions, nor improve (or even maintain) the neighborhood, nor the housing unit the renters left behind

Its just life

As Christ said, the poor you will have with you always. Meaning - people have to want to improve. Simply giving them silver or gold as they continue to sit on the corner, does not change their life

Some school, some where, vouchers or not, have to serve the kids who parents are absent or just don't care. There is no permanent solution for that level of apathy

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Posted by NC_Tigah

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Posted on 4/24/14 at 2:57 pm to League Champs

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I think you are a bit delusional on this topic. Schools are like any other business, they are only as effective as the clientele they serve

A bit like saying kids don't benefit from good parenting. Of course kids benefit from an optimal student-school match. Of course they benefit from schools attentive and responsive to their needs. Of course they benefit from systems willing to push them.

For example, you can take a kid with a 90 IQ and force feed him into truancy with spoonfuls of our generic public school system, or you can run a targeted vocationally oriented program, teach him how to weld and make nearly six-figures/yr by his 30th B'day. On the flip side you can assess every innercity kid as a "dysfunctional" as CT does. In that instance the occasional student with a 115 IQ gets cast away while teachers are addressing other classroom issues.

The general concept is not to turn chickenshit into chickensalad, but rather to understand chickenshit might have a different value. It can make good fertilizer which in turn can help grow a great garden, and gardens produce salad.

School choice allows personalized matching of school strengths with student interest and capability. That enhances performance. It also encourages student-parent buy-in. That is how schools are effective.

This post was edited on 4/24/14 at 2:59 pm

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