Well, the common person doesn't pay that much in state income taxes...that's why I refer to it as a loan. They contribute to a rather broad system of things, and while it's not LITERALLY a loan, it function as a loan. But literally as leaning-libertarian...IT IS taken by force and meant to be used to promote a social cause. Although in this case, I tend to think school is a better social cause than anything else. My thoughts, exactly. That's why I'm leaning to support it. I personal like the idea of complete privatization, but internally past all that idealism I understand there's fundamental reasons to have some sort of public schooling. After all, if the chose is schools vs jails, then the conclusion gets a bit easier to make. It has to be better than it it now, though.
I'm honestly not sure how we can truly revolutionize the schooling system. I really do think that far too much time is wasted on unnecessary materials that are blantantly presented through the memorize and then forget system. It is really hard to keep kids motivated when they are learning about the Revolutionary War for the 5th time. You also have to deal with the purely impractical systems, such as the forced learning of mathematics like calculus. I'm really not sure if anyone is really ready to greatly change this system. There is also one other big problem. There are a lot of children who just don't want to put forth the effort that they need to. I partially blame this on the education system allowing itself to be viewed as pointless and as a thing that one simply has to survive. The biggest problem that I see is that we are unwilling to make the necessary decision of abandoning the percent of student who honestly refuse to put forth a necessary effort. Acts like the No Child Left Behind Act are noble and grand in wording, but they lack the sensibility that needs to be shown. Besides, we are raising a generation to believe that they have to be leaders, and that it is wrong to chose to serve under someone. These ideals just set them up for disappointment and foster rebellious thoughts. I'll end with one interesting thing that I heard. Could the education system be failing due to the new liberal ideas about child raising. My parents talk of their time and mention how they were just expected to sit down and learn what they had to learn, because they had to learn it. Now, everyone thinks that learning has to be fun. We raise children by having them watch shows like Seasame Street where the letters and the numbers dance and the lessons are taught by funny and interesting creatures. Does this set them up to fail when they are forced to enter a boring and repetitive life? Sorry if I rambled a bit, but that's what I do.
In my experiences, I tend to learn better when I was still in Private. Now I'm at public, the teachers arent that strict anymore. We do less work than a private school.