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- Subject: Re: Financing education (was Queens School Board
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- Having taught in a Catholic school, let me just add this (salient)
- point to our conversation. Many Catholic schools are glad to maintain
- a certain degree of discipline in their schools (with regard to guns,
- drugs, etc.). To a certain extent, this discipline is maintained by
- charging parents fairly high prices, and in turn the parents demand
- (speaking generally) something of the students in return. Few parents
- will pay the kind of money it takes to send a kid to Catholic school only
- to have the kid completely waste the opportunity. If a voucher system
- were established in this country, and let's say every parent suddenly
- had an extra $2000 to spend on private schools per year, it is reasonable
- to me that most private schools, including Catholic ones, might
- raise their tuition $2000 accordingly, in order to avoid opening up the
- schools to the more general public. Perhaps this is a cynical viewpoint,
- but i only raise it having experienced being a student and a teacher
- within the private/catholic schools. If more people have access to
- catholic schools, discipline in the schools might be (seen to be)
- threatened. Generally, if parents have to stretch their money toi
- (to) send a kid to school, there is more pressure on that student
- to be high-caliber.
-
- Just a few ruminations for you.
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- Thomas Beaudoin
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