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Originally Posted by danjarch
The results of these policies were pretty predictable. The adverage person now feels less pride and has less desire to fund or help the local school system. In fact another democrat policy from the era pretty much killed private donations to the public school system. In they're attemps to make every body equal, they passed laws in most states that made any donation given to a school be split up through out the district or through out the state. This effected my elementary school. It had been rutine for the nuke plant to include large donations to the local schools in they're contract negotiations. After the law took effect the local union dropped that from the table. They no longer saw a personal benefit from it. Demanded more pay instead.
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That's a great story. I often hear decriers of the notion of "incentive" deny that such things happen, but they do indeed -- when people are forced to provide for others in their community, they no longer see the incentive in working hard to provide in ways that are effective and that they can be proud of.
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Thats become the nature of the beast. More and more is stripped from local control and as such becomes all about politics rather then getting stuff done. Taking more of my money to force me to let you guys teach my child that gay is ok, or buddism is about love but christians are horrable, or lets focus on being ok with our answers rather then knowing how to multiply fractions is not going to happen with out a fight for every single penny.
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Well-said. Using the public school system as a defense of high taxation and government spending is the most preposterous example yet.
Right now I'm resisting the urge to go on a rant about public
post-secondary education. I've been watching my university begging for the funds it needs to play catchup with the economy for years, and people are finally starting to realize that it's a scam. Maybe that means there's hope?