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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NO.  It is much better for all of society if we invest in PUBLIC schools, not send our tax dollars to private schools.  Private schools have zero obligation to actually teach facts or teach everyone, including the difficult children.

Private school vouchers are just modern day segregation with new vocabulary.[/quote]

No- we can't just keep throwing money at failing programs. Clearly public schools aren't working currently. Our test scores are declining, kids are disruptive, and teachers are leaving. Fix what's wrong. If you look at the actual dollars, schools have enough. Are they spending them effectively? Being forced to litigate nonstop special ed violations is a big budget killer.[/quote]

FCPS spends nearly $20K/yr educating each student versus a US national average of $16K. [b]Germany spends $15k/yr, so it’s not about throwing more money at the problem.[/b] We need to fix the issues in the schools and remove wastes. Despite their lower pays relative to other professions, public school teachers have higher salaries and benefits than private school teachers. If public teachers want higher pay, remove the layers of bureaucracy and administrators, and allocate those funds to teachers salary. However, hold the teachers accountable for their students’ performance. Fire chronic under-performing teachers and administrators. That’s what privates do.

We’re in private and would love to send our child back to public. We don’t want to see the limited public funds diverted to privates but if the public school boards won’t solve the problems, they should live with the consequences of a death spiral that vouchers will bring. [/quote]

Germany also has a very different education model. It's not at all comparable to how the US is currently set up. They have a three-tier system that tracks kids as university-bound or not as young as 10 and unfortunately closely mirrors social class division in the country. Germany doesn't provide anywhere near the educational supports the US does for SN kids. They're not going to do IEPs and intensive supports for ASD, ADHD, dyslexia, etc.; [i]if they're lucky[/i], those kids are on the vocational track. More often, they're shunted off to special education schools away from everyone else. They aren't even assured of vocational school education.

I think there are some good takeaways from the German model (like not needing a bachelor's for a lot of jobs!), let's not act like it's some perfect system. It fails a lot of kids.[/quote]

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