[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 86, Issue 11

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
" 
" On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:20 AM, wa2egp at att.net wrote:
" 
" > As long as they're not too busy trying to make a living and personal
" > agendas can be minimized.  I really don't see it happening.
" 
" Look at it the other way, rather than buy a very expensive house and  
" pay obscene property taxes just to get their kids in a "good" school  
" district, a family could buy a cheaper house where taxes are lower and  
" get a good education for their kids. Maybe one parent could afford to  
" stay home/not work? Get together with a few like-minded parent in your  
" neighborhood and each parent may only have to supervise the collected  
" kids one day a week. And 'classes' could be held at night/on weekends  
" around parent's work schedule...

i'd like to see a voucher system, where say 80% of the public-school
cost to educate -your- child is returned to you to spend on education
as you please.  the school system ought to know what resources,
special and ordinary, your child needs from the school in the course
of the year, and if they do they certainly know how much it costs, so
they can figure it into next year's budget request...

the problem is they'll find all sorts of excuses and rationalizations
to gerrymander the cost figure so that what they give back isn't based
on the real cost.  we -are- dealing with a politicized bureaucracy
here.
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