Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!bbncca!msimpson From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics Subject: Re: School Prayer -- My personal opinions Message-ID: <618@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 10:47:40 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.618 Posted: Mon Mar 12 10:47:40 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 19:38:05 EST References: <614@bbncca.ARPA> <1411@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 31 *** 12 March 1984. Recently, I suggested eliminating public schools as a means of handling the 'school prayer' dispute. Greg Skinner (decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!gds) took issue with me, saying >> You cannot be serious about this. Most US families >> cannot afford to send their youngsters to private >> elementary and/or high school. However, if public schools are eliminated, then the resultant tax drain on the parents will be lessened, easing the crunch. (I come from a lower-middle class background, and went to private schools for all but three years of my education, as did my brothers and sisters.) One additional problem this would handle is the following. We have a national ruckus being raised over the quality of public schools. Do we need more money? More discipline? Better teachers? (Etc.) If schools were all privately run, they would be forced to become more competitive (and hence do a better job of educating children) or go out of business. Divergent opinions welcomed. -- -- cheers, Mike Simpson, BBN msimpson@bbn-unix (ARPA) {decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (Usenet) 617-497-2819 (Ma Bell)