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No, I am comparing performance among relative peers.Is it worse than waiting months or years on a list in Canada for a transplant. Or, worse than being told your too old to receive a heart transplant in Brition?
Again, false. The curriculum is more extensive in private schools. Public shools offer fewer extra curricular activities and fewer esoteric courses like World Religion.They work because they still teach the old R R R. They don’t spend half of the day teaching little Johnny why he has two daddy’s and the other half teaching him to pretend to be muslim for a day.
Not likely. Follow IDEA funding since 1990.I agree here. Unfortunately they do not have the means to accomodate special needs. However, if the church could spend the money it has paid out in lawsuits over the last few years on catholic education, maybe the accomadations could be handled.
Quite likely, but wait for Catholic High School. Still, your cost is no lower than most state’s. First, does your parish subsidize the school (most do)? Second, is the school listed as school property or parish property (almost always parish property)? And you quite likely do mandatory fund raising and have mandatory service hours. When you add it all up, you are quite likely spending more than the public school nearby, but saving money isn’t why most of us choose Catholic school.The tuition at my childrens’ catholic elementary school is $2700 per year, and it’s worth every penny.
That is the problem with US politics, we listen to garbage so often we can’t listen to each other. If you are in a PPO or an HMO, you already have someone telling you who you can go to and what tests you can have. Canada has no such restriction, you go to the doctor, he/she tells you what you need. Yes, they have problems with overall availability of services, but that is because they are a small country with a relatively small population.Health Care is on everybody’s mind for a reason, I agree. However, nationalizing health care is not the answer. I don’t want the government telling me what doctor I can go to, what tests I can have done, what proceders are warrented. How long I have to wait. Let’s start with tort reform and auditing the FDA that would get things going.
A nice thought, but per capita, it is no longer true.I’ll say it again, the US citizenry gives more money to charity than any other nation.
Sorry, you have it backwards. I’m tired of the shredding that the constitution has taken the last six years. I’ve bled for my rights, I’d like to keep them. I just don’t think that spending a nickle of every dollar I make for someone to push health care paper for profit is very smart. We manage fiscal policy, markets, etc. This is as it should be - see the Catholic teachings on an acceptable democracy.If you grant the government the power to give you everything, than you grant it the power to take everything from you.
The US government has done plenty of good, everything from rural electrification to saving the free world. The key is to not let greedy, dishonest, stupid people run it.