socialist absurdity

USSR & Eastern Europe were never controlled by the US through sanctions or any other way. China's economy was stagnant until it embraced elements of capitalism. All advancements in technology have come from capitalism. Capitalism isn't perfect, but so far it's the best we have. Maybe in the future AI will take over the economy.

Have you talked to any of these minors? It's amazing the basic stuff they don't know like who George Washington is. I have two friends with younger children. Both took their children out of public schools. Homeschooling is becoming a trend. Our schools suck!

You must live in a very affluent neighborhood. You don't seem to know what is going on in most places.

I love talking to immigrants. I have met several, and I know a couple personally. I believe legal immigration should be increased. We need immigrants since we don't seem to know how to procreate anymore. Not sure where you got the idea that I don't like immigrants. You seem to have a lot of unfounded prejudices.

Antithesis, you win. You successfully diverted the conversation from the OP. Why did you do that?

You must be thinking of someone else. I am against illegal immigration.

There are gangs in town who wander around causing trouble. Some kids busted my nose open one night. Parents keep kids from wandering around and causing trouble, not the government. Clearly, more money won't fix schools. charter schools get better results with less money. As long as politics is more important than results, poor schools will continue.

Throwing money at problems is seldom the solution. You have to find out what is going wrong and make the tough decisions. Throwing money at a broken system isn't going to fix anything.

No. Public schools are dysfunctional. Do you know anyone with kids going to a public school? Do your research. Talk to people. I play music with the father of a school-age daughter. After an incident, he pulled his daughter out of school. She is now being home-schooled. My neighbor with three school-aged daughters sends them to a Montessori school.

Are you OK with school vouchers and charter schools? Teachers' unions are against them. They don't want the competitions. Protecting their jobs is more important than teaching.

When is it time to get a new plumber? When is it time to restructure the school system based on performance or offer vouchers for charter schools like they do in Sweden?

Antithesis, you clearly don't own a house. I hired a plumber to do some work for me. I had to hire another plumber to fix the original problem and then fix the stuff the first plumber screwed up. Some plumbers suck no matter how much you pay them.

Lol just exactly what the government does when paying someone to fix the roads. ... Hire one company, to have to hire another company, when they could have just hired its own military to fix the roads.

Why should it be a responsibility for one taxpayer to pay a lifetime of taxes so other people's children go to school? Once upon a time not long ago one room school houses existed and it didn't take millions and millions of tax payers dollars to operate. It didn't take doctorial teachers after high pay to teach schools, backed by a high paying governing chain of command. School is way different now compared to the days that educated the greatest generation. It's sad to think the greatest generation is gone along with it's wisdom. Finally the more of a populous needing the joys of contributing to society, the more services society will have to provide. So unless the government can regulate the crisis on illegal citizenship and immigration seekers. Society will have to continue to raise the amount paid in contributions towards the common good.

I don't know how else to explain that how you benefit from the children in your town having a place to go and learn during the day so they're not just wandering around with nothing to do.

So. How about just, we took a vote and that's what we agreed.