Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> I was reading a newspaper article written by a British teacher whose
> opinion is that private schools in the UK should be banned. When all the
> wordy argumentation is distilled down to its very basics, it comes down
> to be, basically, "it's unfair that some children are getting a better
> education solely because their parents happen to be rich; this kind of
> elitist snobbery is completely inappropriate to the modern world we are
> living in".
>
>   This got me thinking: *Why* shouldn't at least some children get a better
> education, if their parents can afford it? What's so wrong with that?
>
>   The complaint would make sense if *all* children could be given a much
> higher level of education if the private vs. public schooling system was
> dismantled and replaced with a public-schooling-only system. However, given
> that children in private schools form a very small minority, and the reason
> why they get a better education is because these private schools have better
> funding (because the rich parents are funding them), banning the private
> schools is not going to increase the funding of public schools in any
> significant way. (In other words, even if the funding/student which now
> goes to private schools was distributed among public schools, the overall
> funding/student in public schools would not increase significantly.)
>
>   So basically what this teacher wants is to deny a better education from
> these children and force them to go to public schools which have lower
> funding for the sole reason that it's more "fair", basically forcing *all*
> children to the same lower level of education, insted of having at least
> *some* of them in better schools.
>
>   Given that a significant majority of children who go to private schools
> end up going to Universities and becoming university-level professionals
> (such as teachers, doctors, surgeons, etc.), deliberately dumbing down
> their basic education just for the sake of "fairness" feels completely
> counter-productive.
>
>   Ok, it might not be "fair" that all children are not given the same
> opportunities, but do you really want to lower the overall education level
> of your entire country just in the name of "fairness"?
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp



I agree with warp.
When you take from the haves and give to the have nots without regard to the
effort of acquisition then both die.
Free money is not free. Somebody had to work for it.
I have what I have because I did what it took to have it. Why should my hard
work now become a sin in the eyes of the world? It sounds like socialism is
becoming the new irrational religion based on the myth that everyone should be
equal.
In the US in the past we understood the starting point was all the same but what
you got after that was up to you. As of late our government keeps listening to
the myths of socialism.

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