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As such, I thought this video to be quite relative to the topic at hand:
Did you mean "relevant"? Or did you drop a word, as I often do, and mean 'quite [something] relative to the topic'?
Okay, after watching the video, I understand: you're recommending sitcoms as a source for understanding education policy.
This makes a great deal of sense. For instance, my understanding of labor issues were well informed by episodes of I Love Lucy in which Lucy takes a factory job. My understanding of our legal system is based on Boston Legal (because I treasure William Shatner as a policy advisor) and my knowledge of the availability of health care to the uninsured is formed from watching House and Grey's Anatomy. While these last two are of lesser reliability, because they are more drama than sitcom, I think they have a lot of important points to make. Iassume that you, like me, read The Onion and watch Fox for unbiased news.
I send my child to private school and it is so much better. He's at 3rd and 4th grade levels and he is only in the 1st grade.
I have no objection to private schools. I went to one myself.
However, there are some things that everyone should pay taxes to support, whether they personally use them or not - such things as police, fire, national defense, roads, sewer and water systems, etc. I put schools in this category.
So if people want to send their kids to private schools that's fine, but they should get no break on the taxes they pay to support the public school system. Nor should we have a system where richer, smarter and better informed parents can send their kids to the better public schools and let the other public schools rot.
The problem with talking about "school choice" is that the term tends to have no fixed meaning - it sounds good, just like reproductive choice, but it means different things at different times to different people.
On the other hand, if you're forming your political opinions and beliefs from BBC sitcoms, all these fact thingies don't matter.
The teevee said to choose which school to send your kids to. I wonder which other issues we should let European teevee decide? Mario?
I thought the video was hysterical and I appreciate your putting it up.
Every child in this country should be able to walk to a neighborhood school and receive a first class education.
Any attempt to divert resources somewhere else will only aggravate the original problems making it "necessary" to divert more funds, which aggravates the problems, which makes in necessary to divert more funds, which aggravates the problems ...
Neither the video nor the RGF report (nor Mario) address the key issue of why schools in low income neighborhoods are the ones suffering the most. Or how two parents working a combined 100+ hrs a week to pay rental in those neighborhoods are going to find the means to transport their children across town, let alone investigate the school system in order to make that wise decision.
Why that omission, Mario?
End result? Better education for the haves; worsening education for the have notes.
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