Comments on: Pell Grants for Kids

By: Federal Policy Undercuts, Supports Urban Catholic Schooling. All At Once « Education and Class

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:09:39 +0000

[...] 13, 2008 I wrote briefly last week about the “Pell Grants for Kids” proposal from the State of the Union Address. One of [...]

By: Ed Eubank

Ed Eubank — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:42:51 +0000

It’s all about choice. Public officials seem to forget that it’s the peoples money. Most public officials do send their children to private schools. That is just the way it is. Competition always created the best consumer options. The educational system here is hurting and money wont fix it. Let parents choose, as public officials do, the school of their choice. YES to PELL GRANTS FOR KIDS!

By: The Urban Scientist

The Urban Scientist — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:40:33 +0000

Pell Grants for K-12??!!! Looks like a (quality) free public education is going the way of the dodo. Let’s go back to colonial days…when only the weathy or cleregy-bound could get an education. Everyone else should serve as farm hands and learn useful trades (mechanics for boys and domestic arts for girls) the good old-fashioned way – apprenticeship. Send your first born other children with promise to school – spend all of fortune on that. Shove the rest of your children off on some tradesperson for 5-15 yrs as an apprentice and bingo.

Private school/charter school is a great idea. But EVERYONE is trying to get their children in very expensive-cost-more than-college- pre-schools, grammer schools and high schools. You’ll be more in debt before they fill out their first FAFSA
BTW, going to a shee-shee private school is NO guarantee you’ll get into or do better in college. I’m public ed K-12, college and grad school. My 3 sibs were private school educated, middle school and high school. 1dropped out of college,1 is in college doing great & the last never attended college. All are smart, great kids and good students. But they are representative of most at their private school my mother oohed & aahed over. Most of their school mates, haven’t gone to college either. Of those that do, most go to junior college and still flunk out. C’mon you spend 10-14K a year in secondary school cost and the avg kid goes to JUCO. That’s criminal. It’s a small school, but out of 30 grad per class, usualy only 3-5 go to a 4 year college AND graduate. The rest are still on their momma’s couch.

The system in broke. Let’s fix it, not cover it up with a thin gauze.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:02:50 +0000

Ha. I loved his mention of that law the other night. It’s really the only leg he has to stand on anymore, and it’s a lame (duck) one at that. I defer here:

http://aer.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/44/3/493

Enjoy.

By: Crimson Wife

Crimson Wife — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:50:25 +0000

Why should only affluent parents have true school choice in this country? I find it very hypocritical when people who chose private or tony suburban schools for their own children are against programs providing choice for children from low-to-moderate income families.

The experience in Sweden has shown that the competition from vouchers can lead to improvement in government-run schools.

It is far past time that we allowed *ALL* families to choose the educational option that they feel is the best “fit” for their children- whether that’s a government-run school, a Catholic or other faith school, a secular private school, or homeschooling without government funding but also without government interference.