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Admittedly, my sample size is very small, but all signs indicate that public schools are a waste of time
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Only if the government of the day is so idealogically opposed to spending money on furthering the goals of ordinary workingclass kids that schools are underfunded and disregarded.
There is a very easy way to make schools do better. Spend money on them. Pay teachers enough and pay enough of them that their morale is high. Fund the shcools heavily enough that even the poorest ofthem holds to a high standard of equipment and available tuition. Make sure enough funding is put in that the schools are not oversubscribed....It really isnt that tough
I have had this argument with a friend of mine in th states and been told that " Money has been poured into the education system and it does no good. The money gets wasted"
In that case America must have a different definition of what constitutes pouring money but because last I looked there simply wasnt the same level of funding going into state schools in the States as there is in much of Europe.
Now I dont hold up my country's schools as the way to go. We send our kids to school too early here , and we start teaching them to write before their litttle hands are fully able to manage a giant crayon, and alas we have fallen into teh trap of setting up league tables which are driving some schools into a sinkschool state whilst the better performing schools get even better, but the difference between state schools and private schools is not as vast as I imagine it is over there.
On the continent, Germany and France have better schools. But then again they spend more on their state education than either America or Britain.
Tax your people. Spend the tax on providing services including decent education for your citizenry.