Seer, my parents were both busy professionals but the always found time to "be there" helping us; in those rare instances they were not my granda took over...and that was painful. LOL
Test you, Test me, Test everyone else. Test everything said before accepting anything. If it is not proven truth, wait.
Vouchers....I am all for vouchers. I believe this method will make a huge difference...as it would school specialization.
The government ought never to assume the role of nanny - they are not qualified and they are incompetent. Using a slur like "spawn" against parents, while it might be true in too many cases (especially when government pays lots of money to do so - AND corporations set up "baby cities" to produce children for sale world wide ) is still not an argument in favor of more government nor government involvment in parenting at all. If government did not pay so much to parents to have children, perhaps there would be more caution in having any extra children - or in having children for money... ?
I used "spawn" purposely to distinguish actual parents from the dregs who reproduce with no idea how or desire to raise children. Governments need to stop reinforcing this behavior and start handing out birth control.
I don't believe that would help either. Best I can remember is when government stayed out of things that it doesn't do well, and shouldn't be doing.
This is the question , isn't it? The answer is simple: with all of your heart seek truth, keep seeking truth ... you will find the truth.
I am SO against vouchers. School vouchers may sound to some like a good idea in theory, but even with a voucher or tax incentive, parents have to spend more dollars to send their child to a private school. Those that can't afford the extra money, can't afford to use vouchers. This only widens the gap between those that have, and those that have not, starting in early childhood. Instead of vouchers, a better idea is to change the funding system of public schools, which is based primarily on property taxes, so the tax money allocated to schools depends on the number of students, rather than the socioeconomic status of those living in the school district.
School vouchers would inevitably bring the same stupid government regulations to private schools that have made the public schools such a failure. Rather than a voucher, which would have the effect of giving parents money that could be used to pay for private school education, I'd rather see them being able to claim it as a deduction on their taxes. After all, if I am paying to send my child to a private school rather than the public school, why should I have to pay for both?
Vouchers are not for the schools...are for the parents to be presented to the school they think as the best for their kids. The advantage of vouchers is the school/s -in order to keep getting this money- will improve their curriculums / teaching.
I I might point out that it were those hated gov't regs that had teachers cut the pages out of biology books that dealt with evolution and had textbooks that "Brought Africans over to work in the cotton fields; meaning that state legislators set the agenda, not the teachers. Furthermore the spread of Charter Schools, which the Obama admin supported, has set back US education by a century. Why don't we privatize the police and military? Oh wait... the military is already privatized.
Teaching/ schools at most all levels have only gotten worse as more money was spent.... over the decades, continually worse.... As someone once pointed out, the question is not "should ungodly evolution be taught in public schools" or even "should creation be taught", but rather , should there be any public schools ? (they have not helped, from some or many viewpoints, and have likely caused much expense and results in students not learning how to earn an honest dollar - dishonesty is embraced in public, and encouraged and even expected in courts by judges, lawyers, defendants and observers (all saying it seems "just don't get caught" (lying) ) .... There's a long history in the usa , decades anyway, of losing students, losing teachers, losing money (more than anything), because the government and public ways of education are not built on a solid footing, and do not have good results overall....