Single issue voter

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

Hello,

Can someone tell me who caters least to families, children, and "no turn between 7-9 a.m." signs in the upcoming election?

Thanks!

Comments

Re: ;-)

[m00n.livejournal.com]

I think you underestimate the scope of the problem. That "lowest common denominator" of society represents a substantial chunk of the people in our prisons and public housing projects at the moment, and the problem is currently getting worse rather than better. The main purpose of public school, in my opinion, is to allow children to gain advantage where their parents had none, so that they can "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" so to speak. The rest of us already have the means to borrow money to go to private schools if we want to do that (although I would argue that our general population already has more debt than we can handle, so adding even more would do more harm than good).

Re: ;-)

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

Let's agree to disagree. I think privatized schooling would be higher quality due to competition between schools and more (much more) centralized and focused administration.

Re: ;-)

[m00n.livejournal.com]

The problem is as much with the structure as it is with the mindset of said administration. We very nearly ended up with an entire national education system that believed the world is only 6,000 years old. If that had happened, I would have been hard pressed to say that we were better off because our entire country's curriculum was decided by one centralized and focused administration.