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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get liberals out and have conservatives run the schools with the right to kick out kids who don't want or try to learn.

Put those kids in vocational school or boarding school.

Watch the results increase . The problem is liberalism ... Expensive and lousy results every time.[/quote]

I'm a liberal and I agree.

We are so elitist to think that anyone in a trade is a dumb ass.  I will never make as much as my father, yet I'm college educated THREE TIMES!

School isn't for everyone, and there will always be an underclass.  I think each kid needs a chance, but after seeing some fool in grade 9 get kicked up to grade 10 for barely passing and reading at a 6th grade level, he either needs intense remediation (which the county will not do) or he needs another outlet.

In the majority of cases, he'll drop out or end up in jail. And if the system DOES catch him in an alternative setting, graduation rates there are abysmal there.  Yes, there are successful alternative settings, but Mo Co doesn't have one in the stellar category!  [/quote]
Wow
And you get to decide who these kids are ?
Who decides what kids get sent to vocational school ???[/quote]

You mean like in Germany when 12 year olds take a test which sets them in a vocational or educational track for the rest of their state funded schooling?
Or the big high school test given in turkey, Greece, etc to dictate what career you get or is in demand?
Or maybe you'd like Manhattan's style where your kid must TEST IN to the best public schools. Lo and behold Stuy and Bronx science are vast majority Asian American.  [/quote]

While I am not the original poster I can't resist answering this dumb, inflamatory question.  There are kids in these schools who are not prepared to learn.  They are disruptive, disengaged and make teaching hell.  Give them an alternative that will engage them.  Stop wasting our tax money trying to educate those who don't want it.   The world doesn't need lawyers only, it needs plumbers, taxi drivers, and so on.  Why do you want to spend dollars, discourage teachers, and make students who want to learn unhappy by making someone who'd rather be a plumber learn Advanced History 10?

Give them the opportunity, if they don't want it, let them try something else.[/quote]

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