Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:16:49 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <199708102216.RAA29231@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199708102137.OAA16731@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Aug 10, 97 02:37:21 pm"
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> > > > The argument for school choice/vouchers is that there would be competition > > among schools and thus some improvement; proponents argue that it is > > especially important in inner cities where schools are more likely > > to be appallingly bad and also dangerous. > > inner city schools are so dangerous for at least two reasons: > the students that attend those schools > the low level of funding per student > Add: lousy managment of the school. Locally, here in Indianapolis, schools have been cleaned-up by shaking up the managment of the school. Chicago is also using that concept to improve their situation. I live in a "border" area, where the nearby high school has alot of kids that come from poverty (my immediate area is really nice though.) That high school now has very little drug abuse, etc. Much of the changeover was due to the change in principal and support by the local school board and parents. This is one place where the competition aspect comes into play. I could imagine where a school goes below critical mass -- administration/teachers go away, and then the school is reconstituted in a year or so. That would have the advantage of disrupting disfunctional behaviors (both by school administration, and student culture.) The good thing about school vouchers is that even alot of families in poverty care about their kids. They can also vote with their voucher. I would think that the voucher would "enable" the poor folk, and not necessarily give advantage to the upper-middle class. The biggest group disadvantaged by the "voucher" concept are the entrenched bureaucrats (incl school admins), and I kind of like that idea :-). John
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