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Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:27:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Duane Hess writes:
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> > I've been through the public education system (several of them actually) and
> > I think the government is doing a lousy job at it. The quality of student is
> > degrading rather quickly.
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> I ask this as a flat question, without intentionally hidden rhetoric: Is
> there another country of comparable size, population, and demographic and
> financial diversity that has a predominant and demonstrably successful
> privatized educational system? That is, has a non-public system been shown
> as better across the board among a similarly diverse student base, or are we
> simply taking the small sampling of private US schools and extrapolating
> what we feel their results might be when applied to the nation as a whole?
> We're all great drum-beaters when it comes to ridiculing the US public
> educational system, but is there really another nation we might use as a
> comparison? Again, I'm just asking, because I don't know.
I don't know of any large developed nation with a predominantly private
secondary education system. I can think of one that has a predominantly private
health care system though, which might be analogous as a basic and essential
service required by the whole population.
--DaveL
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