Got thoughts on public education?

@pillowprincess Equality will never exist in the real world. All government can do is make the masses equally miserable. In the United States, the federal government accounts for 7 percent of all education funding. (State taxes take up some of the slack and local county property taxes pay the lion's share.) Ironic, because most of the dumbass regulations come from the Beltway, from a bunch of idiot bureaucrats who never actually stood before a classroom to teach.

@Reason10
I'm not talking any existing US system, hence my reference made to national/federal level. I'm talking about education belonging to everyone and not just the one's who can afford it, or depending on where they live and what salary happens to be offered due to local tax income. That's a very narrow way of thinking and certainly not in the interest of a whole nation. I don't care about the knee jerk ways of thinking among a lot of the US citizens and taxes being something bad. That's visionless, and not what I was talking about. I'll repeat I believe in equality and what will bring us the closest to this. Is it something to be achieved on a short term? Certainly not, women's voting rights weren't either.

@pillowprincess In the real world, NOTHING belongs to everyone. And you REALLY don't want to tell a good teacher that shit. Teachers are not doing this for free. They are getting PAID to teach. To a good teacher, his/her education product has a VALUE in the market. Equality means you want them all to teach for free. In the real world, you get what you pay for. It's called the law of supply and demand. Oh, and to bring you up to speed, US citizens do not automatically think taxes are bad. We recognize that taxes are required to pay for the legitimate functions of government and NOBODY has a problem with that. We DO have a problem with hard earned money being taxed to be given to welfare bums who do not work for a living. Oh, and comparing education funding to women's voting rights is just plain ignorant. The two subject are completely IRRELEVANT to one another.

@Reason10
Who's talking about teachers doing anything for nothing? I suggest you read my comments again, and try to understand what they mean instead of doing the knee jerk thing I was mentioning as well. Also, nowhere was I saying everything belongs to everyone. Talking about real world, get real yourself first in how you read sincere comments on your post, if you really want to be enlightened with insights of people living other places than where you live. I'm out of here, keep your caps lock to yourself. Enjoy your echo chamber.

@pillowprincess If you are looking at equality as an ENTITLEMENT, and that ALL students deserve to be treated the same, then they have the right to a free education. (And the poorer sections of the counties treat schools that way because they aren't directly paying taxes into the system. For them, schools are free daycare centers.) As far as discussing public schools, I was actually offering more concrete analysis and a lot of stories from my experience in the business. Yes, I can't just ignore the concept of funding education because EVERYTHING has to be paid for. But it is a fool's errand to want EQUALITY. Some countries (like China) come close to equality, with the largest sector of their population being equally illiterate and starving to death. That's usually a result in communist and socialist societies. In America, you still get what you pay for.

@Reason10

@SevIsPamprinYouAlways Gee! You must have thought long and hard to come up with that bullshit post. Then again, most liberals act like other long and hard objects all the time.