Are reservations for poor kids in PRIVATE schools a good idea ?

[Ned]

The problem with the quota system proposed in India is that it is a mandated but unfunded cost on private schools. I would favor not only a reservation of 20% or poor kids, but also that the government reimburse the private schools for cost of education of these poor kids.

In essence, vouchers.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I never thought I would see a debate on THIS board as to whether we should have Reservations for Indians...

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Anyway, I agree... the government should NOT force the 'private' schools to accept a certain amount of the poor. IMO, private schools should be allowed to be totally private in respect to who they accept into their schools.

[General Ludd]

I went to a private school, and alot of the kids there where from families who couldn't really afford it. Many of the kids in my class where kids of faculty members who get a discount, or from families who where sacrficing a bit to send their kid there. Granted, there wasn't anyone who was really poor, probably lower-middle class at best, but they wheren't all rich kids.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by skywalker
No it isn't, because hardcore porn isn't expression (by which I mean political or intellectual expression).

It can be.

[Az]

Originally posted by skywalker
No it isn't, because hardcore porn isn't expression (by which I mean political or intellectual expression).

Fart jokes aren't political or intellectual expression, either, but they're allowed on t.v. aren't they?

[Kuciwalker]

Yes, because it'd be pointless and stupid to disallow them.

There are two things something has to clear to be restricted: is it not freedom of expression, and is it not "appropriate".

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by skywalker
Yes, because it'd be pointless and stupid to disallow them.

Just as it's pointless and stupid to ban porn.

[Jac de Molay]

Anyway, I agree... the government should NOT force the 'private' schools to accept a certain amount of the poor. IMO, private schools should be allowed to be totally private in respect to who they accept into their schools.

That sounds good to me, as long as they accept no vouchers, either.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That sounds good to me, as long as they accept no vouchers, either.

All vouchers come with strings attached anyway, so that doesn't matter.

[Az]

There are two things something has to clear to be restricted: is it not freedom of expression, and is it not "appropriate

what does "appropriate" have to do with the constitution?

[Ned]

You guys who are against vouchers underestimate the power of greed. Of course private schools will accept poor kids so long as they can pay with vouchers.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Azazel

There are two things something has to clear to be restricted: is it not freedom of expression, and is it not "appropriate

what does "appropriate" have to do with the constitution?

Absolutely nothing. However, the constitution doesn't say you can't ban inappropriate things. It says you can't ban political expression.

[Jac de Molay]

Originally posted by Ned
You guys who are against vouchers underestimate the power of greed. Of course private schools will accept poor kids so long as they can pay with vouchers.

You think a private school would accept a kid from a poor neighborhood, with all his family and emotional problems and other baggage? They neither have the personnel or resources to deal with the wealth of problems these kids bring into the classroom .

I don't care what strings are attached. Selective private schools have no business with state money of any kind.

[Immortal Wombat]

How is private schooling political expression?

[Kuciwalker]

What they are saying is every child must go to a state-sponsored school.

See?