Monday, September 7, 2009

Single Payer...Education?

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhnnnnnnnnn [sound of buzzer]

Wrong answer.

And here's why:

Everyone will want to go to the best school, and the best school can't hold everyone, so the kids who are poor, or can't bribe their way in, or can't drive an hour to the best school because they can't afford their own car because they are not in the upper-middle class or higher, or the kids whose parents don't know how to game the system, or the kids who are "bad," or "bored," or god-forbid-acting-like-boys....the kids who need good schools the MOST....

...will be stuck exactly where they are.

So, we're back to the original point--we need to improve all schools. I have no problem with shutting down a bad school, retooling it, and reopening it. But do we let people CHOOSE THEIR FIRE DEPARTMENT?? There is NOTHING more critical to a functioning society than a group, an organization, that keeps crap from burning down.

Therefore, we demand, expect and I hope, pay for every fire department to function at some generally accepted minimum level of competence.

Why can't we ask the same for schools?

Please let's get real.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/so-we-cant-have-single-pa_b_276644.html

http://iwf.org/inkwell/show/21991.html

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