Gold standard of education is teaching the younger generations how to learn things on their own. We used to do this at the foundation of this country. Where homeschooling was common and your average 3rd grader knew what a marine biologist needed 2 semesters in college to learn today.
Agreed. It's what every classical Christian school worth its salt strives to do.
But we also need to have an adult conversation about ideology.
Wherever Johnny and Jenny go, they're going to be indoctrinated based on the values of the institution.
Allowing local communities to decide what those values are to then determine the indoctrination of their schools is by far the best possible solution, IMHO.
You have me confused with someone who isn't thinking for themselves. and you write as though, because I'm for vouchers, I must also be for property taxes.
It's not either-or. It's both-and.
I'm for vouchers. And I applaud efforts in Florida and elsewhere to end property tax.
You're pretty doom and gloom on this topic. I invite you to look at the trajectory. Tariffs. End of Education Department. More people voting Republican in EVERY DISTRICT in the last election.
Unless I'm mistaken, things are looking for good, for 2026 and beyond.
One of the 10 New Cities, that President Trump proposed in his Agenda 47 should include a University City. Design the City for maximum value for the Students, while an awesome Brick & Mortar City grows around the Educating process.
Incorrect. I sat through a State of the School presentation by the Executive Director of the school the first year my kid went there. She reviewed the entire P&L statement with us and answered all of our questions. There were zero people taking millions of dollars. Not even anyone taking hundreds of thousands.
What I did see is a school that had to expand to three campuses because of the massive waitlist of students because parents were equally as unhappy as I was with the quality of teaching and wokeness at their neighborhood schools.
What I also saw is that this charter school was able to take on THREE mortgages for their buildings as part of their operating costs - something the neighborhood schools are not saddled with since they are provided buildings by the government - and with the SAME amount of funding per student was able to more effectively pay their teachers and produce a better educational outcome.
Yeah - I do know what I'm talking about because I was incredibly invested in my child's education.
More effective teaching without the bloat and wokeness. Maybe there are some charter boards taking advantage and that should be reeled in but don't assume every charter operates the same because I just gave you an example that proves differently.
OP doesn’t have a clue how school choice works, either because he/she doesn’t have access to school choice in their district, or more likely does not have school age children and is angry about property taxes being taken from them. Nearly every charter school outranks any public school in the same district on any metric.
This is incoherent. Fix it so it makes sense.
Not sure where you're getting your information, but school choice is the GOLD STANDARD for education.
Providing families with vouchers so that they can send their kids to the best schools? It can only DRIVE UP THE QUALITY OF EVERY OTHER SCHOOL.
Gold standard of education is teaching the younger generations how to learn things on their own. We used to do this at the foundation of this country. Where homeschooling was common and your average 3rd grader knew what a marine biologist needed 2 semesters in college to learn today.
Agreed. It's what every classical Christian school worth its salt strives to do.
But we also need to have an adult conversation about ideology.
Wherever Johnny and Jenny go, they're going to be indoctrinated based on the values of the institution.
Allowing local communities to decide what those values are to then determine the indoctrination of their schools is by far the best possible solution, IMHO.
You have me confused with someone who isn't thinking for themselves. and you write as though, because I'm for vouchers, I must also be for property taxes.
It's not either-or. It's both-and.
I'm for vouchers. And I applaud efforts in Florida and elsewhere to end property tax.
You're pretty doom and gloom on this topic. I invite you to look at the trajectory. Tariffs. End of Education Department. More people voting Republican in EVERY DISTRICT in the last election.
Unless I'm mistaken, things are looking for good, for 2026 and beyond.
Concierge teachers... 5-10 families pool money for home schooling w a trained teacher. Then they can cut property taxes by 2/3.
One of the 10 New Cities, that President Trump proposed in his Agenda 47 should include a University City. Design the City for maximum value for the Students, while an awesome Brick & Mortar City grows around the Educating process.
My son went to a STEM charter and it was amazing. I'm all for charters. The neighborhood school was a woke joke.
Incorrect. I sat through a State of the School presentation by the Executive Director of the school the first year my kid went there. She reviewed the entire P&L statement with us and answered all of our questions. There were zero people taking millions of dollars. Not even anyone taking hundreds of thousands.
What I did see is a school that had to expand to three campuses because of the massive waitlist of students because parents were equally as unhappy as I was with the quality of teaching and wokeness at their neighborhood schools.
What I also saw is that this charter school was able to take on THREE mortgages for their buildings as part of their operating costs - something the neighborhood schools are not saddled with since they are provided buildings by the government - and with the SAME amount of funding per student was able to more effectively pay their teachers and produce a better educational outcome.
Yeah - I do know what I'm talking about because I was incredibly invested in my child's education.
More effective teaching without the bloat and wokeness. Maybe there are some charter boards taking advantage and that should be reeled in but don't assume every charter operates the same because I just gave you an example that proves differently.
OP doesn’t have a clue how school choice works, either because he/she doesn’t have access to school choice in their district, or more likely does not have school age children and is angry about property taxes being taken from them. Nearly every charter school outranks any public school in the same district on any metric.