Fee-Paying Schools

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Ruinel
You know, if there's a problem with the local school, why don't the parents volunteer to watch the cafeteria, the playground, tutor kids after school, protest the junk food being sold in the vending machines? Why? Because some parents really don't give a $h!t, and the rest think they know more about educating kids than the teachers who've actually been TRAINED to educate kids, so it screws it up for everyone else who actually COULD do something to fix the damn system.

Because that doesn't always work when the school is controlled by an incompetent board of education or the teachers union.

And yes - private schools DO NOT have to worry about all those things. But poor people, inner city people, who may have the brains to go to the private school - may not have the money to. With vouchers this gives them a way of going - where they deserve to go - instead of being in a drug and gang infested inner city school. Of course not - all inner city schools are like that. The number 1 school in NJ is the Dr Ronald McNair Acedemic High School - and it's in the heart of Jersey City.

Also - vouchers are much better at overcoming the "segragation". People right now - go to school where they live. With vouchers - people can go to a different school. It's much better than busing - because this leaves it up to the parents and gives them a choice.