04-18-2014, 03:41 PM
stanc Wrote:What you seem to be talking about is a modern version of what the ancient Spartans did. I think it sounds like an excellent way to "breed" warriors, but wouldn't such a school be beyond the financial means of most parents? That is, if you're talking about training the kids who would become enlisted personnel, not just the few sons of wealthy people who are aiming at a commission.
For example, I was interested in the military since about the age of 5, but my folks never had even a fraction of the funds necessary to send me to any kind of private school, let alone one such as you propose.
Parents are already getting fleeced to the tune of thousands per year on property taxes, which pay for the salaries and retirements payments of what was recently described in a pro-public school article as "educational care-takers" in reference to school shootings.
Parents should have the right to decide where their money goes with vouchers, since they are being robbed by government with threat of force and loss of property to finance forced schooling systems that are totally unworthy and unsuited to teach boys in my opinion, and I've attended a lot of public and private schools in my developmental years, to include on-base schools overseas, on-base schools Stateside, 7 different High Schools, who knows how many public elementary schools, and college courses before and during high school.
There was only one of those schools that would have been appropriate for me to stay at, and that was a local small town German school when we lived on the economy there before housing opened up for us. I had language immersion, and a positive attitude 30's something blonde female teacher who was actually British, no-nonsense, an excellent German speaker, and truly loved her job-that sense was very clear about the classroom environment there. She obviously spoke English, but refused to speak it with me for obvious reasons. The best thing that could have happened in my education track would have been to stay at that school and immerse in German. I loved it there. Instead, I got sucked into base housing, and had Norman Bates' mom for my 2nd Grade teacher, a burned-out elderly woman with a bad attitude who soon learned to despise me for my ability to draw, since she could not. A child should not feel these things from a teacher.
A lot of parents make sacrifices for their kids' education. My parents did, and if it meant I went to a private school with knee patches while other kids showed up in suits, so be it. There are also many opportunities for philanthropy. How many of us know business owners that are patriotic, and are painfully aware of the sub-standard educational trajectory of forced schooling? We went to Pop-eye's chicken last night after long-range shooting all day. Unfortunately, the products is of higher quality than the employees, and they couldn't get a simple order correct, failed to follow-up with fixing it after it was addressed, and were a general pack of ignoramuses.
A lot of businesses would love to invest in successful, sound educational models based on private sector solutions, rather than continue to sift through the slim pickings of what is spat forth from government schools.