Education
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,187 posts)You don't want the rules of social behavior or economics to apply to you. You want what you don't pay for. You want it for free.
The ayn rand figure is the one who thinks the rules don't apply to them. They have needs and they must be met. Others can just somehow take care to see that that is done.
Yes, it might be good if schools were funded equally at the federal level. Then you could go where you want. (Of course that would remove any parental input about the child's education since it is now a national matter.) But until then, you want to take what is not yours. As I have pointed out above, I doubt you would be happy if others wanted to take for themselves the things you consider yours. Ambulances do work inside of regions of taxation. You can't be so clueless as to think that money for hospitals and emergency services just appears from the sky.
Trying to make your cause the cause of creating equal funding for schools is a game you play because you can't really defend you position. First you tried making up shit. Then you created mythical (what I meant by magical) schools that don't need money for teaching children. Then you jump on the bandwagon of making all schools equal. When what you really want is to just complain about the people who are trying to do the real work while you chip away at their funding and denigrate their efforts because you don't understand how things work. Overhauling schools won't be done by people taking money from public schools and giving it to private corporations. That is the end result of the cause you celebrate.
(You school is magical, because it doesn't exist in the way that you claim. You won't identify the school so that it can be audited by groups that are actually trying to do something about education for all children. If you know of a school that openly accepts all children from anywhere without restriction, operates on less money that local schools in the area, and meets the same guidelines as public schools, you need to be shouting its name to the rooftops. Unless, of course, a quick examination of the funding and guidelines of the school might just not jibe with your claims.)
It comes down to your celebrating a program that helps tear down better education for all. This so you can get what you want without paying for it.