RE: The Absurd GOP
August 11, 2022 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2022 at 10:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
More individual attention, and the chance to mingle with relatively wealthy peers. Those were the hooks in the 90's, when I went. That and feeder programs to ivy league schools I'd never attend on account of how I prefer camping and shooting guns and building shit. One of the ways that catholic schools have stayed competitive boils down to tuition reduction schemes. When you volunteer to teach - not bound by public schools certification requirements, though not necessarily choosing between a pool of subpar applicants.
You can end up with (relatively) alot of people with a masters or better but no ed cert teaching high school courses. Mind you, competition for academic excellence is fierce around important bases and in densely populated areas - and some kid in bfe texas could have had a gym owner as a pe coach and history teacher..but I have no complaints myself about the quality from my stint, lol. I had science teachers that were geneticists and hydrologists and marine biologists by training. My economics unit was taught by a fund manager for raymond james. PE and football coach was an air force para rescue officer. We had local authors and artists of note for ela and lib arts...etc...etc...etc. It was good. Such a tight knit community that I've never really made friends outside of it in all of my life thereafter. We stick together to the point that when tragedy befalls one of us in one state they end up in anothers house in some other state.
I actually understand, when some religious school can offer that product -and- not run afoul of a persons superstitions, why they'd prefer that their tax money didn't go to those other schools. Some people want their kids to have that, and they need the cash in taxes to pay for it. As a homeschooler, I still had to pay the local school taxes, and that stuck in my craw. I want to fiund education...but I';m not sure that my tax contribution "to education" actually does that. I get that the way we've tied school funding to property values is one of the reasons why I can see my experience as being more desirable, and that it's intimately related with keeping the unwashed masses down - but still.
You can end up with (relatively) alot of people with a masters or better but no ed cert teaching high school courses. Mind you, competition for academic excellence is fierce around important bases and in densely populated areas - and some kid in bfe texas could have had a gym owner as a pe coach and history teacher..but I have no complaints myself about the quality from my stint, lol. I had science teachers that were geneticists and hydrologists and marine biologists by training. My economics unit was taught by a fund manager for raymond james. PE and football coach was an air force para rescue officer. We had local authors and artists of note for ela and lib arts...etc...etc...etc. It was good. Such a tight knit community that I've never really made friends outside of it in all of my life thereafter. We stick together to the point that when tragedy befalls one of us in one state they end up in anothers house in some other state.
I actually understand, when some religious school can offer that product -and- not run afoul of a persons superstitions, why they'd prefer that their tax money didn't go to those other schools. Some people want their kids to have that, and they need the cash in taxes to pay for it. As a homeschooler, I still had to pay the local school taxes, and that stuck in my craw. I want to fiund education...but I';m not sure that my tax contribution "to education" actually does that. I get that the way we've tied school funding to property values is one of the reasons why I can see my experience as being more desirable, and that it's intimately related with keeping the unwashed masses down - but still.
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