Until education leaves the "right to get" category, we will all have to pay in our 'pound of flesh'.

If you want to talk about inequity: I haven't had a school aged child for the past 10 years...but I am paying for the public schools.

Add to this 'theft', the fact that I don't approve of how our local schools are being run, and you have what amounts to a capital crime against me. And if I refuse to pay my portion of the property tax that goes to education, I get to lose my property.

My neighbor is a close friend, and teaches in one of our elementary schools. You can imagine some of our conversations....

I agree. Let's not even make a determination whether "boys and girls are different". Let's just let each person explore the life he has on his/her own terms as much as possible.

Yes. Right. "I'm paying the bills indirectly through taxes, and I make the rules indirectly through a political process." Where possible, it's better just to pay a service provider you like directly, skipping the taxes and political process.

My guess is that Waldorf is a private school.

Sounds like you meant to say: "I am paying the bill, but someone else makes the rules"?

That is true for public education, but where I live we have a school board, and we elect the leadership. You will get whatever is the prevailing community political leaning.

Charter schools in my neck of the woods are far more productive, and conservative in their curriculum. I attest this to the teacher's union failing to get their foothold into them....

This is the nature of govt-sponsored schools. Parents can talk to the administration, but in the end if they want free education, they need to do whatever the administration says. Someone else is paying the bill, so someone else makes the rules.

I wish that we could use the seahorse, cause I love them!

But...the Navy has already been using them for their divers. ;-(

It's amazing we have to say "parents do have a say". If most people just bought their own education directly, this would be obvious like "people have a say which make of car they drive."

Of course we pay for it! I'm saying this is the $hitty part of having the gov't provide the service w/ tax money instead of people just buying it.

I'm conflicted b/c I like the gov't to provide services that give us a fair society, but once they're doing it we end up with this debate. If we all bought our own kids' education directly, it would be none of our business if someone wants to sends his kids to tug-of-peace-style school.

I send my kids to Waldorf, which is a little tug-of-peace-ish, but I try to expose them other ideas and encourage them to play cops and robbers if they so desire. You could send your kids to military school. It's a free country. But when gov't takes over something, that's not part of the free country anymore. Now politician can and should debate what kind of schools we should have.

nope. even barnacles are cut throat

how come betas aren't called alphas?

they die easy too. Fail in the aquarium

I thought about adding "they pay you back." it was less dramatic. I wondered if you were going to call me on it.

"Someone else is paying the bill, so someone else makes the rules."

To claim this, you must not be paying any property taxes.

Since even renters are paying this tax through their rent (passed on by the landlord), then you would have to be one of the homeless individuals!

No kidding...is there a creature more docile than a seahorse?

LOL

"they"? Isn't it a tax deduction from the taxes you've already paid?

seahorses

Smokey is going to start shaving his chest

they pay YOU if you homeschool

Who's paying the bill???? The tax payers! aka the parents (in most cases). The parents do have a say, however too many never make a peep. It's a strange thing to watch. Sad really.

Oops. I didn't even notice. Thanks.

It's hostile, not hostel. Sorry but unless you know you will keep making the mistake.

Mermaids

Unintended consequences?

"On the other hand, millions of boys are struggling academically. A large and growing male cohort is falling behind in grades and disengaged from school. College has never been more important to a young person’s life prospects, and today boys are far less likely than girls to pursue education beyond high school. As our schools become more risk averse, the gender gap favoring girls is threatening to become a chasm."

It looks like our newest crop of males, are 'shrugging' out!

The next generation of Navy Seals, will be PC renamed to the Navy Dolphins....

I have been thinking on this. Could it be the reason men aren't getting married and raising families? Just look at all the commercials on TV, and the inane American sitcoms. The men are stupid. The women has to come riding to the rescue and the kids think he's an idiot and waste of space. I was watching a Happy Days rerun last night, and Howard Cunningham was the head of the house hold. The leader. That is no longer the case. Men are being portrayed as superfluous sperm donors.