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| 2018-07-15 |
| [Daily Caller] Almost 20 percent of K-12 students in North Carolina are not attending traditional public schools. Enrollment in the state’s traditional public schools has fallen during the past few years as more and more students attend private, charter or home schools, The News & Observer reported Friday. North Carolina’s proportion of students enrolled in traditional public schools now sits at 80.8 percent. "Families are more attuned to and used to having choices at their fingertips, and that is entering education as well," Parents For Educational Freedom Interim President Brian Jodice said. "We’re no longer in this mindset that because I live at this address or this ZIP code I have to attend this particular school that works for many students but doesn’t have to be the only choice." The National Center for Education Statistics anticipated that out of the 3.6 million students expected to graduate from high school in 2018, 3.3 million graduates would receive their degrees from public high schools. This proportion is over 10 percent higher than the aforementioned North Carolina rate. Not everyone is pleased with the trend. (RELATED: School Choice Could’ve Spelled The End For Teacher Who Called Soldiers ’Dumbsh*ts’ Much Sooner) "North Carolina has already embraced the privatization, the [American Legislative Exchange Council] agenda of dismantling public schools in favor of their donors who’d rather try to monetize what should be a public good," N.C. Justice Center’s Education and Law Project education finance and policy consultant Kris Nordstrom said, according to the North Carolina newspaper. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 #1--At least 20% of the parents don't want their kids to get shot while attending school, want their kids to get an education rather than get indoctrinated and want them to learn good values? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-07-15 23:28 |
| #9 ...This backs up something I've pointed out here before - NC is a LOT redder than the media would have you believe. The potty-rights morons in Charlotte and the utterly insane liberals at Duke University (plus the somewhat less so types at UNC Chapel Hill) tend to skew perception of the state leftward, when it ain't. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2018-07-15 16:43 |
| #8 all extortion funded systems become run for the convenience of the staff not the nominal customers. Just look at the disastrous NHS here in the UK. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-07-15 16:28 |
| #7 ...at least the Post Office is a constitutionally base requirement, Art 1, Section 8. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-15 08:12 |
| #6 A School Funding Red Herring |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-15 02:55 |
| #5 There is always the Post Office. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-15 02:16 |
| #4 As was pointed by the late Jerry Pournelle decades ago - K-12 system is not for students, it's for teachers (were else would all these semi illiterate women with IQ of 80 get white collar jobs?) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-15 02:14 |
| #3 Head Locke Episode 013: Is higher education a waste of time and money? - John Locke Foundation |
| Posted by: newc 2018-07-15 01:33 |
| #2 Home base, and the John Locke Foundation So much going for US! |
| Posted by: newc 2018-07-15 01:25 |
| #1 I'm gobsmacked! I can't possibly think of a reason for this strange trend taking place in North Carolina.......South Carolina, Georgia, TN, VA, AL, KY, TX, LA, FL, MS, |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-15 00:59 |