>>128
I've adressed your points before, you vacous waste of flesh, go read
>>74 and actually respond.
I've agreed with you that the teacher's union is absolute shit, and should be quietly disbanded or brought to task by the government actually holding them accountable. That aspect of NCLB would be great, if not for the fact that the only method that system has for catching teachers is a sink-or-swim mentality, which leaves the children to founder as well. The best credence I'll give to the Finnish is that their government uses their (relatively) enormous tax income to actually push education as being important, and the prevalence of trade schools prepares people far better than a shitty liberal-arts degree. Past that, our societies are too different to merely transplant one system whole into the other.
Before you presume to characterize me as some fool who spouts what the unions feed to the public, I shall remind you that I have firsthand knowledge of the shit that goes on. Not every goddamned public school is a bars-on-windows pre-prison, merely a good portion of ones in severe urban areas. Not every teacher is there for paychecks and tenure, some would actually like to teach, despite the children coming in fucked-up.
My overall objection to your simplification of "public schools fail, the only other option is privitization, agree or you're a libfag socialist" is that you have no basis in realistic practice. To reiterate: Private institutions work because they have enough money to lure away the best teachers, and the money comes from parents who care enough about their children to make an actual effort to invest in their future. With the 'magic' of your competition you will get what experts call a clusterfuck; parents scrambling to get their children into the 'good' school, less affluent parents forced to settle, and a bidding war for the best teachers. Where do the poor belong in this, then? What guarantee does your plan have against teachers blatantly cheating to ensure their new jobs? Who is going to run these private institutions, and who guarantees the curriculum?
You have adressed none of my questions posed thus far, indulge my curiousity. Also, an open dare: Answer my questions without making a caricature of my position or myself, and actually think your notions through to their end results. Do this and I might just stop considering you to be nothing more than a parasite stealing my oxygen.