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Complaints not accompanied by helpful suggestions, or that don't solicit helpful suggestions, are a bane to productive associations. With the underlined statement, I agree completely and it is the...

You are a trip. So, you have much more to offer but choose not to share it on a message board? Is that right? :laugh: And you believe that I think I'm smarter and better than everyone else? Is...

Precisely. Nothing wrong with griping, I certainly do, but only if you're prepared to offer an alternative. It's certainly time that everyone put up or shut up about everything. Only talking about...

That's your retort, a misspelled word? You're more shallow with each post. You got anthing to offer other than a proclivity to whine?

And your plan is equally as fascinating as maverick's; poster children for Starbuck's philosophers.

A subconcious assessment of yourself no doubt; and still no offer of an alternative. Oh, but I forgot, that's not your job. Yours is only to criticize, not construct.

Do you never tire of being wrong? If one wishes to snipe, then one should at least have an opinion concerning an alternative. It is not your job to formulate and implement the details of a better...

The only alternative that has been advanced is..............nothing. And don't kid yourself, "nobody is against improvement" unless that improvement requires real change, like elimination of tenure...

What bears remembering is how much money is spent on public education, how powerful and entrenched are the constituencies opposed to change and improvement, how the current system of public education...

I think you're correct, but I don't view it as pertinent. If a family believes that the education to be received at a private school is better preparation for college or work than what they will...

Private schools provide a choice. They are not begging for a State handout and do not depend on State aid for their existence. They are offering to be part of the solution to failed public...

Asserting that predominately religious schools are not being held to reasonable standards is baseless. You don't like one school and from that you issue a blanket condemnation.

Failing public...

That is the status quo argument that has been employed forever to resist any change. Got any other old retreads you want to trot out?

You are constructing a hypothetical either/or choice and from that proceeding to condemn an entire reform effort.

Your hypothetical is just that. Consequently your conclusion has no basis.

Nothing's being pushed down anyone's throat. Putting more money in public schools will not improve them. They have plenty of money to educate, but there is little ability to hold teachers...

What utter tripe. Further, if how science is taught at any school is your determinant for attendance and you dislike how it is taught at a particular school, DON'T ATTEND THERE! That's why it's...

And this is worse than public school teaching that man-made global warming is a fact, or that life spontaneously sprang from non-living elements, or that it is fact that evolution is an unbroken...

That's ridiculous. It's a private, Christian school; of course they're going to study the bible. If the voucher recipient objects, he can choose another school! That's the point of school choice -...

That is elegant in its simplicity - and correct. Beautifully set forth!

dj95 has not objected to the accountability for teachers in Jindal's plan, only, in his opinion, the lack of proper accountability for students. So perhaps Jindal's plan has merit as far as it goes....

Well, I have no idea concerning the merit of your suggestions, but I commend you for having some definitive ideas to explore. That's better than 99% (imo) of those that oppose any reform effort.
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You defined the problem as you experience it; so what do you propose for student accountability?

That question is completely off the subject. This education reform proposal is not about "special needs." It is about accountability. Stay focused!

Discrimination in education is perfectly ok. Anyone not willing to learn under the established rules and conditions will have to learn in some environment of there own creation. It is not the...

The problem with the entire subject is that both sides have a convenient scapegoat. The captioned article provides poor teachers a reason for poor performance (poor students) without accountability....