From: blockedofcourse@foo.invalid   
      
   On 11/27/2025 12:29 AM, bitrex wrote:   
   > Then public education mostly works like Mary Kay, they manage out the   
   > struggling students to keep the numbers up. Then "good schools" are just ones   
   > that are better at dumping "bad students" on "bad schools."   
      
   That's how the charter schools, here, work.  You redirect your tax dollars   
   to a "private/charter" school.   
      
   *BUT*, that school has to, first, ACCEPT your child as a student.  As they   
   want to keep their scores up, they weed out students who might not perform   
   as well.  So, those left in the public school system drag the scores of the   
   public school system down.   
      
   Charter schools could work -- if they were open to ALL applicants, not   
   just the "select few".  Let them compete with the same "raw talent".   
      
   Sadly, this means that the people doing most of the work will be less   
   educated.  So, when those "select few" are reliant on them for services,   
   they will (or, SHOULD be) wary of the quality of those services!   
      
   [I went to a Home Depot to buy some plywood.  I need it cut into 10.5" strips.   
   The "kid" they sent to run the saw (liability prevents customers from using it)   
   pulled the tape out of his rule, part way, and asked me "What's ten and a half   
   inches?"  (I kid you not)  I took the tape and marked the plywood, accounting   
   for blade thickness, and told him "cut on the outside of these marks".  When   
   done, I looked at the three customers waiting for the saw and wished them all   
   luck!]   
      
   > Public education in Soviet Russia worked a lot like that and was also sink or   
   > swim in practice, though they of course didn't call it a "free market."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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