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[lisamoe]

Seeing as how I'm one of those evil liberal types about many issues, I feel silly linking to a conservative radio station website, but oh well. When I got the following link from a list I'm on, I thought of gentlemaitresse and some of my other homeschooling friends, so here it is.

If We Bought Groceries the Way we Buy Public Education

Comments

[anathemad.livejournal.com]

That is a great link. Thanks for posting it - it is being passed on.

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

You know me so well. That was great.

[mstami.livejournal.com]

Thanks a bunch. I passed this on. Terrific article.

Sorry, but not that great

[jackofalltech.livejournal.com]

The things missed by the article... If we did education the way we do groceries teachers would be paid an hourly salary, not to exceed $8.00 an hour unless they are in management. The majority of teachers would not be full time professionals but be limited to under 30 hours a week so they wouldn't be eligible for any benefits (Think Wal Mart.). If we would prefer to do it like health care since he admits that there should be some public funding we could do it like Medicare where the companies that decided that they weren't making enough money to keep their shareholders happy they just pulled out of the communities that didn't make them enough money. Sorry, but I just can't join the First Church of Free Market. It's adherents irritate me as much as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell's. Human institutions are sloppy, just like their creators and the free market doesn't make them any more perfect. Sorry to get political but I felt I ought to justify not joining the chorus of approval for bad analogy.