Whenever I hear the word PUBLIC associated with anything, I think second-rate.
Public Transportation: Graffiti infested buses and subways with a lurking criminal element.
Public Restrooms: Only if you have to and try not to sit.
Public Education: Where Johnny learned to fire a pistol.
The government shouldn’t be in the business of educating people.
They do a terrible job of it anyway. Everyone knows private education is superior to public. Why else would people PAY for it?
The biggest problem with public education is that teachers aren’t paid enough. So the talented move on to other pursuits.
Now, I don’t mean we should take the slackers currently teaching in the United States and give them more money. I think we should fire them all, jack up the salaries and hire the best we can get in an open competition.
We pay for this salary increase by doing away with the biggest unnecessary drain on a school’s budget: The School Bus. This would increase the quality of education overnight.
Without the buses, there would be more money for books and teaching aids. The emphasis would be educating the kids, not just getting them there and back.
Without the school bus, parents would have to get their kids to school, by themselves or by car pool or whatever. This might lead to parents taking an interest as to what is going on there.
This, by the way, will never happen.
