"IBV: Folks around here don't like to be reminded about how things work in other places. They remind such suggestion that if it was so much better at where-ever, go back there and leave us folks to run our own place. I'm not suggesting that, I'm just say'n.
BTW, it wouldn't require the same amount per student because a well run corporation would take all the fat out of the system and get down to what's needed to produce a product that is competitive. True, some corporations are having troubles right now. Thats makes my point. When an entity doesn't function in the interest of its shareholders and customers it usually ends up in financial trouble. What better example than public education?"
Yes, you are exactly right about folks around here, but that is one of our problems. If you ask most Southerners, we haven't done anything wrong since the Civil War and that wasn't really our fault. Darn that Northern Aggression. I did try to get a longer term work visa to move back to Europe, but they aren't giving many of those out these days because of the Eastern European mass migration. But really I do love it here, really. ;) I think we as a entire country have that same "we do no wrong" feeling and this is one of the reasons why we are getting our rear ends handed to us in a global economy.
I work for a small private school that constantly has to trim the fat, and there is no way we could properly educate a child for the entire amount of what the state pays per child, much less a trimmed down version of that. Maybe it is that no one can educate for that amount? I don't know. I just think that if we throw away the entire system that the poorest kids will lose. A corporation is for profit, so any good one should stay way the heck away from education. Our only rewards are not financial.
