More Controversy in Mingo County
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Yep. You and I know virtually everybody involved in this. I actually side with the ones who believe the County should not be funding the school, because they shouldn't be. It's a private school, and the county should not be paying their bills.
Oh? So that means you also don't believe school vouchers (which are tax supported) should be used for private schools?
Your belief fundamentally flies in the face of everything the Republican Party represents when it comes to education. Big country is more of an independent thinker than I thought.
I fully support school vouchers while siding with the FFRF on this one.
Vouchers force competition in education. If we're going to socialize education we may as well make teachers accountable for a change.
Pro tip: if a politician has a nickname like "Hootie", he's probably a moron and corrupt.
Bullshit. It's a giveaway to churches, period.
In Indiana there are 313 schools that accept vouchers. 306 of them are religious. And so much for your competition: these schools do not even have to hire qualified, licensed teachers. Even crazier: when a bunch of these sham religious schools shit the bed in state testing, the state changed the rules so as long as students' scores are increasing they can stay open. The composite score can go from F- to F and that's just dandy with the state. And yes, this really happens.
I do get a chuckle that five of our voucher religious schools in Indiana are Muslim. I've never heard a single Republican politician here mention that, because of course people would lose their fvcking minds.
I am shocked you would support this kind of bullshit. You want school competition? Easy: let the money follow the student across district lines and into secular charter schools. That is one thing Indiana does do right.
"In short, the differences in student performance across school sectors apparently have little to do with market forces such as competition and autonomy and much to do with the demographics of the students served. In fact, after considering demographics, the public schools appear to have a pronounced advantage in student performance."
http://hepg.org/hel-home/issues/31_1/helarticle/turning-conventional-wisdom-on-its-head-public-sch
You know what’s funny? Every single time I present a viewpoint that aligns with yours, you try to attribute a position or a comment to me that I have either never stated or supported, or have changed my stance on over time. Rather than accept my stance, you try to challenge it, like I’m lying or something. Not sure where this obsession came from, but it’s rather odd.
That's not fair. Where a person is from means little if anything.
Strange; you were able to reach that conclusion from me asking you a simple question? I never claimed that your position had changed on that issue. If anything, it was inferred that your stance may be polar opposite of the Republican party, which frankly, is a big change from your usual position. I'm not sure how my question in this thread would be associated with me attributing a different comment from you.
But since you brought it up, you have flip-flopped on some major things . . . age of the Earth, homosexuality, etc. And that isn't a bad thing. It isn't easy to vehemently argue for something and then later admit that you were wrong about it.
