Originally posted by funnymouth
what about those who live below the poverty line - do they have any less of a right to an equal education? i find it hard to belive that a starving mother in the hood is going to spend that money on her 3yr olds education and not on food and warm clothes. who picks up the tab for all the poor? i put myself through school, by myself. ive lived on my own since i was 16. who would have paid for my education? if you think anyone gave a sh!t about what i did you\'re wrong. the idea of privatization is ideallistic, and works well for YOU, an obveously middle class individual.
i can see it now.....south central falls below the necessary profit margin so all the schools in the area are shut down....
our country is already full of idiots and people who ruthlessly indoctrinate their children with crackpot ideas, do we need more of that? or are our children smart enough to develop their own educational path?
sure, the private sector is more efficient, thats not the only issue. it might be efficient for the company to cut a local school because its not making money - but that isnt efficient for the single mother of three. it might be efficient for a cult/organization to make their own school to indoctrinate its members children and expose them to lunacy/bigotry from day 1. is that in the best intrest of our nation? of our nations people? no.
So much to answer here:
First: I suggested giving back the amount of taxes that \"supposedly\" go to school. The \"mother in the hood\" already has access to welfare programs to buy food and clothing. The additional tax moneys would be for her children to go to school. As I stated above the amount I paid for private school was close to what is coerced from me in taxes. If there were more competition in this arena it would likely be lower. Also I have lived in poor countries. The poor in those places did NOT have Heat, AC, a car (with shiny rims), a microwave, clean water. Things that \"poor\" in this country have access to.
Secondly; since I obviously made you angry; you resorted to accusing me of being middle class (is this supposed to be an insult?). Short autobiography:
I was born in BFE Missouri. I lived in a trailer in the middle of a field for the first 2 years of life. My Father was going to school on a full scholarship which he EARNED due to his grades(He turned down a West Point commission so he could marry my mother). Since he wasn\'t making enough money to feed us AND pay the rent on the trailer he blew off his scholarship and joined the military (like all the other males in our family, both sides, and alot of the women as well: not typical well-to-do behaviour) We moved every year of my childhood, and lived in multiple states as my Father followed work (after his discharge). He held such jobs as slaughterhouse worker, shoe salesmen, door-to-door smoke alarm sales etc. To this day he sometimes has to sleep with his hands in buckets of ice-water due to the tendonitis he got from the slaughterhouse. Eventually he landed a job in corrections and for the first time my 2 siblings and I went to the same school for more than one year. This school was so \"middle-class\" that we started our freshman year with 97 students and graduated 69. Try to imagine how much funding we received. Upon graduation I had a few choices; Go to college on the scholarship I had earned with my grades, join the military, or stay in this town of 2000 wallowing in my \"poor\" status and seeking sympathy. I did what every American has the capacity to do. I moved. Signed up for the Army at 17 and left BFE to acquire some skills. Got to see real squalor and human suffering, crawl through mud and human waste and get shot at; during peace time I might add. After 7 years of honorable service I got a job in manufacturing at the lowest level houly wage (and it was damn good compared to SGT\'s pay in the Army) After a year I had been put in charge of an entire shift 110 people, 32 machines and millions of dollars worth of assets. I worked, Americans do that.
So...Am I middle class? Damn Skippy! I worked hard to get here.
BTW: The constitution doesn\'t guarantee a right to education; so strictly speaking the answer to your question: \"do they have any less of a right to an equal education?\" They have no right. PURSUIT of Happiness, not right.
