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Should all parents, regardless of income, be able to choose where to send their children to school?

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No
17% 76 votes Total: 443 votes
Yes
83% 367 votes
No

More options will not guarantee better education.

The equality that our nation holds dear does not require another government program, funded by taxes, that will cause elementary school children to travel to schools far from their home districts. My kids never had a kind word to say about the school bus ride! A far better result would be an across the board improvement of all schools, so that children would thrive wherever they happen to live or get their education.

Most parents have several avenues available when it comes to choosing their child's educational options. Renters have the ability to move to the school district which they deem best, provided they can afford the rental cost. Many areas have subsidized housing available, which can assist in accomplishing this choice. Home buyers generally include school district as a primary motivator when selecting a neighborhood. Private schools award scholarships based on need and talent, which many children take advantage of. Cyber schools are growing daily, often costing the parents nothing, while gutting the local school district of necessary funding.

The best way to improve the educational system is through more parental involvement. Local parent teacher organization meetings are often poorly attended. Busy parents are unaware of the child's struggle to learn until an unsatisfactory report card finds it's way home. By improving communication between parent and teacher, the educational process can progress exponentially. Sometimes, it requires the parent to shake off the cobwebs and remember how to do algebra, so that homework assistance can be given.

Every child has the right to a safe environment in which to receive a quality education. This will not be accomplished by abandoning our schools that are struggling through a voucher system allowing it's brightest students to flee. It can only be fixed by the cooperative effort of those who have a direct interest: parents, teachers, and children.

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Yes

Yes, of course giving one's child and sending him / her to one of the best schools where they can get the best of education is a vital factor in a child's career.

It has to done with utmost care by parents to see to that they are going and earning some way or the other and fulfilling their dreams and to see their children well placed in future.

it is the duty and the moral obligation of parents to be responsible in building up the future of their children. Then why to have a family without being responsible ?

Nobody is going to help anyone these days because the cost of living has climbed to the pinnacle of its expenses and height. So, if a parent has to choose where they have to send their child for education it involves quite a lot of money. In order to overcome this task parents should be in a position to earn properly inorder to send their children to good schools where they are exposed to high education standards which enables them to emerge as great victors in life and cope up with the rising standard of life and live a peaceful and happy life.

Eduacation is a must to thrive in this world. To enjoy one's life you need to have a good job at hand and to capture a fantastic job one has to study nicely and a child from his kindergarten days needs to get the attention of good tutors and superb teaching techniques and standardised classes to come up in life.

If the parents are not having adequate finance then it will be a problem for them to give their children the best of education available and send them to schools whewre they will receive good standard levels of erudition and education.

Every parent feels and like to give their children the best of education regardless of the income and they can choose where to send their offsrings and to which school , but when taking in to account these matters and liberites one should be in a postion to maintain the expenses and the heavy fees these institutions are charging on the parents becuase all these organisations has become professional business minded institutions.

This is where the real disease is and there is no panacea other than to run parallel with their requirements if you wish to give your children the best of education and emerge as toppers in this highly competitive world.

So. parents do have the right to choose what they desire and wish, but the real problem is that they need to accumulat money to fulfill the basic needs like the payments of high monthly school fees, purchasing the books needed, uniforms, shoes, tuition fees to be paid if needed , trnasportation charges for school buses or whatever mode of conveyance one chooses etc, etc.

All these basic requisites involves a hell lot of money an da perent cannot simply sit and tell and bask without having a stipulated and permanent income or job to meet these expenses which are necessary to bring up your child in a wonderful way and to exploit the curriculum capacities to the topmost level where your child will emerge as the best and becoam an example of many children.

So, it is not the thing that a parent cannot choose where to send their children or to which school they have to send them for educating them that concerns but it is the amount of expenses a parent has to meet every month to bring up their children to the desired level of life to stand in their own feet and live and lead a happy life.

As everyone knows there is no place and no respect on earth if you are an illiterate or if you are not educated in a nice way to compete with others in this highly competitive world where most of them are becoming highly qualified in order to cope up with the present day of life

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