Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

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Originally Posted by Beestie

I worry about the 99 kids behind the bright kid that no one seems to care about. The bright kid should stay and the 99 kids who've been cheated of a quality education should be sent to private school to catch up.

The problem is that of those 99 kids, about 40-50 of them are the real problem. The only reason the bright and average kids are being cheated out of a quality education in the first place is because the school must spend time and resources dealing with the kids who can't be made to care. Personally I'd like to see more options for expelling the bad apples from traditional schools and putting them in vocational training instead, which will ultimately be more helpful to them than a class like World Geography anyway.