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In reply to the discussion: School Is a Prison — And Damaging Our Kids [View all]DebJ
(7,699 posts)13. Sudbury school has only 155 students, and they screen who goes to the school.
You can't apply that model to educating the masses. Can you imagine the taxpayer burden
for having school buildings every few blocks? Less than 200 students per building?
I'm sure the teacher-student ratio is lower than public schools also. Who is going
to fund that?
Finally, once again, this is a school where the children who attend each come from homes
that value education. I used to hear all the time when I was a child even that the single
most important factor in a child's education is parental interest. Then, no one had the
gumption to mention that factor until Obama ran for President. Not that he's done
much about it. Parental interest needs to be more than this: I gave you my kid
teach now why haven't you made him a genius?
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It doesn't have to be a prison. The main problem with education especially in the last few decades
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#1
Article doesn't say "industrial control", rather education systems evolved from "religious control"
Trillo
Sep 2013
#16
No coincidence that people are often refered to as products of the school system
The2ndWheel
Sep 2013
#25
Thank you. You've very eloquently elaborated the point I wanted to make.
Democracyinkind
Sep 2013
#41
There have been numerous examples of alternative approaches, many of which
Jackpine Radical
Sep 2013
#10
Some tax burdens are worth it. Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps are all tax burdens. They are
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#30
We really need intellectuals to stop coming up with "big, new ideas" every 10 minutes.
reformist2
Sep 2013
#20
It's the classic problem, if I may be a little un-PC, of too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
reformist2
Sep 2013
#44
There's a whole laundry list of things wrong with the school system we know now
NuclearDem
Sep 2013
#23
That is too narrow. One problem I see with our public school system is we have abandoned
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#33
I don't think I want to read this thread, even though it's an issue at the top of my priority list.
LWolf
Sep 2013
#36
Thank you for what you do LWolf. I got a call from my son's special education advocate and teacher
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#38