Ten Reasons Why America’s Public Schools Are Like America’s Prisons
1. Both are compulsory. Obviously, Prisons are designed to be compulsory punishment. Yet public schools, ESPECIALLY for poor kids, can also be de facto imprisonment. As schooling is required by law, and parents are Often geographically, financially, or in some other way limited to Their local public school, students end up being forced by law into the dictated state-run institution. It is worth mention vouchers That Happens to support the which PI would free parents and students from the lack of choice in schools.
2. Both are overcrowded as the result of poor public policy. In the case of Prisons, the drug war and other misguided prosecutions of nonviolent offenses has unleashed a torrent of Criminals into the prison system. In the case of schools, the aforementioned herding of young Americans into local public schools overcrowding creates the same result. The intelligent policies to reverse Both problems would be the decriminalization of nonviolent offenses and school vouchers.
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The United States vs. The World – The numbers are in and they are not good
As Americans, we like to say that we are the best at what we do. The bigger, faster, smarter, etc, and while it may have been a true statement in the past, the study of a series of recent statistics and numbers from reliable sources, it seems that our place in the world, in some very important measures are not where we are in relation to other countries
- According to the Competitiveness Index, World Economic Forum, the United States is now the fourth most competitive country in the world, having been overtaken by Sweden and Singapore and Switzerland still trailing at number one. As recently as in the analysis of 2008-2009, World Economic Forum, the United States was the world’s best. Not a good trend in the first place to fourth in just two years.
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