Louisiana privatizes education

[Ethel mermania]

Why shouldn't be?
If it can provide a better education for less cost, isn't that a better use of the taxpayers dollars?

Oh, my god. Do you really need it pointed out to why this won't provide universal education?

Yes.
The current model in the US is not the only educational model in the world.

[Raeyh]

I was lower middle class from Long Island and I went to public school. Long Island, New York, right?

After hacking your computer and cross refrencing with the Fed data base it says your lower class.

My dad worked for AT&T back when they were a monopoly. They paid their employees quite well. I wish my job paid me as much as he got. Plus he constantly got overtime and therefore time and a half.

[Laerod]

Why would you think that?

Article mentions the New Orleans pilot program, and better results on test scores there. New Orleans is the largest city in the state.

And? Would you extrapolate for all of Texas based solely on Austin?

[Farnhamia]

Article mentions the New Orleans pilot program, and better results on test scores there. New Orleans is the largest city in the state.

And? Would you extrapolate for all of Texas based solely on Austin?

Houston, maybe, or Dallas. Not Austin. Austin isn't Texas. Austin was built by aliens who crash-landed there in the 1930s.

[Laerod]

Oh, my god. Do you really need it pointed out to why this won't provide universal education?

Yes.
The current model in the US is not the only educational model in the world.

What's going to happen when profit rather than universal education becomes a school's primary imperative? What will happen to failing students, to poor students?

[Leepaidamba]

'zactly.

I though you are pro-privatisation, sorry mate.

Only when I'm in a non-evidentialist mood.

[Ethel mermania]

Well of COURSE there's plenty of hills! That's what prevented Katrina from flooding out New Orleans and killing countless people!

Come on, Farn, you know this.

They must have all been washed away by the storm.

Elevation in Louisiana:
- Highest point Driskill Mountain: 535 ft (163 m)
- Mean 100 ft (30 m)
- Lowest point New Orleans: -8 ft (-2.5 m)

You live in colorado I believe, your view of what is a mountain is very differnet then most places.

[Anarcho-Technocracy]

"We try to stay away from all those things that might confuse our children," Carrier said.
Other schools approved for state-funded vouchers use social studies texts warning that liberals threaten global prosperity; Bible-based math books that don't cover modern concepts such as set theory; and biology texts built around refuting evolution.

Only a troll really thinks this is an appropriate thing to spend taxpayer money on. These politicians are trying to divert money from the public trust to for-profit schools with religious overtones that are deliberately lowering the standards of education. The public education system is indeed failing; we should be trying to make education, whether through public or private enterprise, BETTER, not more simplistic and superstitious.

[Farnhamia]

They must have all been washed away by the storm.

Elevation in Louisiana:
- Highest point Driskill Mountain: 535 ft (163 m)
- Mean 100 ft (30 m)
- Lowest point New Orleans: -8 ft (-2.5 m)

You live in colorado I believe, your view of what is a mountain is very differnet then most places.

That's true.

[Torcularis Septentrionalis]

And? Would you extrapolate for all of Texas based solely on Austin?

Houston, maybe, or Dallas. Not Austin. Austin isn't Texas. Austin was built by aliens who crash-landed there in the 1930s.

Shit I've been found out!

[Farnhamia]

Houston, maybe, or Dallas. Not Austin. Austin isn't Texas. Austin was built by aliens who crash-landed there in the 1930s.

Shit I've been found out!

And I used the Green Guy deliberately.

[Leepaidamba]

They must have all been washed away by the storm.

Elevation in Louisiana:
- Highest point Driskill Mountain: 535 ft (163 m)
- Mean 100 ft (30 m)
- Lowest point New Orleans: -8 ft (-2.5 m)

You live in colorado I believe, your view of what is a mountain is very differnet then most places.

I live in the Netherlands. Even I think that's low.

[Laerod]

Shit I've been found out!

:D

And I used the Green Guy deliberately.

MONSTER! D=

[Ethel mermania]

Yes.
The current model in the US is not the only educational model in the world.

What's going to happen when profit rather than universal education becomes a school's primary imperative? What will happen to failing students, to poor students?

Nothing worse than is happening to them now. And if you have schools with different learning methodologies, they may find a school that is a better fit for them, then a large public school.

[Greed and Death]

Article mentions the New Orleans pilot program, and better results on test scores there. New Orleans is the largest city in the state.

And? Would you extrapolate for all of Texas based solely on Austin?

From Houston and /or Dallas yes.
Or atleast extrpolate for other metro areas, yes. And hey that covers 80% or more of the population in most states.

Do I see a need to adjust the law ? defintly.
Do I think the law is an over all good fit ? yes.

Perhaps if the Lousiana Democrats stopped being the party of "no" they might be able to prevent some of the funding from going to the more silly religous insitutions, or going to the more politcally biased insitutions.

[Ethel mermania]

And? Would you extrapolate for all of Texas based solely on Austin?

Houston, maybe, or Dallas. Not Austin. Austin isn't Texas. Austin was built by aliens who crash-landed there in the 1930s.

I have also heard nice things about san antonio.

[Priory Academy USSR]

Well, I suppose there won't be as much competition at university....

To be honest, though, we have no idea what it's going to turn out like. Although judging from other privatisations (see after British Rail) the system will quickly go downhill and become more expensive in a few years.

[Greed and Death]

Yes.
The current model in the US is not the only educational model in the world.

What's going to happen when profit rather than universal education becomes a school's primary imperative? What will happen to failing students, to poor students?

Has profit rather than education taken over our largely private university system ?

[New England and The Maritimes]

What's going to happen when profit rather than universal education becomes a school's primary imperative? What will happen to failing students, to poor students?

Has profit rather than education taken over our largely private university system ?

Yes. Tuition has more than doubled since the 1980s, IIRC.

[Torcularis Septentrionalis]

Shit I've been found out!

And I used the Green Guy deliberately.

In middle school, I had a science teacher who was literally 85 years old, but he was the coolest mother fucker on this side of the Mason Dixon. He used to be a CIA agent, and he was often on a task force responding to reports of LGM - Little Green Men.
Cool ass mother fucker, man.

[Wamitoria]

They'll be back to public education within 10 years, probably after the federal government takes control of education again.

[Farnhamia]

What's going to happen when profit rather than universal education becomes a school's primary imperative? What will happen to failing students, to poor students?

Has profit rather than education taken over our largely private university system ?

Given the price of a college education these days, one wonders.

[Greed and Death]

After hacking your computer and cross refrencing with the Fed data base it says your lower class.

My dad worked for AT&T back when they were a monopoly. They paid their employees quite well. I wish my job paid me as much as he got. Plus he constantly got overtime and therefore time and a half.

Nope the FBI data base says your dad's other girl friend and children spent most of his money.

[Laerod]

What's going to happen when profit rather than universal education becomes a school's primary imperative? What will happen to failing students, to poor students?

Nothing worse than is happening to them now. And if you have schools with different learning methodologies, they may find a school that is a better fit for them, then a large public school.

Bullshit. Take a look at how badly private organizations run prisons. Some things should never rely primarily on privatization.

And? Would you extrapolate for all of Texas based solely on Austin?

From Houston and /or Dallas yes.
Or atleast extrpolate for other metro areas, yes. And hey that covers 80% or more of the population in most states.

Do I see a need to adjust the law ? defintly.
Do I think the law is an over all good fit ? yes.

Perhaps if the Lousiana Democrats stopped being the party of "no" they might be able to prevent some of the funding from going to the more silly religous insitutions, or going to the more politcally biased insitutions.

What? It's not their fault Republicans are a blight on the nation.

[Raeyh]

My dad worked for AT&T back when they were a monopoly. They paid their employees quite well. I wish my job paid me as much as he got. Plus he constantly got overtime and therefore time and a half.

Nope the FBI data base says your dad's other girl friend and children spent most of his money.

That is quite amusing considering his personality.