How Should the Information Age School System be Structured?
This time, rather than offering up problems that most of us know exist, I will propose some solutions. Some of these you may not like, others you may, but if this gets you thinking, good! Yes, I ll admit that some of your tax money would be used to send Catholic kids to Catholic school, Jewish kids to Hebrew school, and the like. This is a fine constitutional line which, I am afraid, has been drawn in the sand. We have been dared to cross it. The consequences for crossing it are largely academic. (no pun intended). If, however, these schools can turn out a better educated student, prepared to contribute towards the bogus social security fund that you will never see, why not? We need to light the competitive fires under our status-quo system, and continuing to give them our money after we throw in the towel is not the way. If you don t want your taxes funding religious pursuits, you are in for a rude awakening. That Cathedral or Synagogue sitting on the best piece of prime real-estate o