Jackson Peters Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2020 05:06AM

This statement actually means nothing.

All it means is that kids with wealthy parents go to public schools..... That's it, nothing else.
Fees to send your kid to a public school in Finland and almost anywhere else in the world, costs fuck all.
Meaning that the school doesn't receive any extra funding from the wealthy, as it's the same expenditure across the board for every pupil attending.

And what..... Are you saying there are no private schools in Finland? Do some research, you will find that there is.
The way they are funded however, is not like in America, that's all.

ipoodyourpants Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2020 07:43AM

What does this post have to do with America?

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2020 08:17AM

[www.theatlantic.com].

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This notion may seem difficult for an American to digest, but it's true. Only a small number of independent schools exist in Finland, and even they are all publicly financed. None is allowed to charge tuition fees. There are no private universities, either. This means that practically every person in Finland attends public school, whether for pre-K or a Ph.D.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2020 12:25PM

Who pays for those "free schools"? Think about it who ultimately pays for it?

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2020 01:03PM

Society as a whole. I have no issue with that. I'd prefer a percentage of my tax dollars to go to health and education vs having $200K college debts and being handed a million dollar bill if I ever have to go to hospital.

Jackson Peters Report This Comment
Date: September 21, 2020 03:32PM

In fact, no school anywhere in the first world economy is allowed to charge tuition fees.
That what a "school fee" is. It's a fee to cover teaching costs (in a group environment). Think about it.....
Anyone can pay a private tutor to come to their home to help their kids with their homework.
It's outside of school hours and nobody's business but their own.

So I reiterate, this statement is baseless.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: September 22, 2020 12:05PM

There is no such thing as free anything except maybe air, nothing in life is free somebody somewhere pays fro all free stuff. Call this stuff what it is government funded schools, healthcare etc. can we trust our government to run these things properly?

Jackson Peters Report This Comment
Date: September 22, 2020 02:57PM

No, Goins, we can't.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2020 11:56AM

So then why is it the left wants to elect socialists to office.

Jackon Peters Report This Comment
Date: September 23, 2020 04:27PM

Coz the other shit ain't working....

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: September 24, 2020 11:43AM

Too many democrats elected to make the government work instead they keep lining their own pockets

Jackson Peters Report This Comment
Date: September 25, 2020 12:29PM

Oh well, ol' Joe ain't gonna win anyway,
And even if he did, the repubs would just be constantly blocking anything good he does in the senate.
Just like they did with Omama

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: September 25, 2020 06:15PM

Hmm, seems you're obviously forgetting the period when he held a Dem majority in both the House and the Senate during the 1st 2 yrs in his 1st term in office. Even after the House flipped in 2010 to Republican the Dems still held the majority of seats in the Senate.

Of course it's not a hard thing to forget since even with that majority he simply ignored his campaign promised actions anyway, despite having had the backing to have easily undertaken them.

Oh wait, he did still manage to shove Obozocare down our collective throats. Of course that was utterly in staunch denial of the will of the majority view of the American people, but that's of little consequence when you've already received the Nobel Peace Prize for having done nothing at all but win an election

pulse Report This Comment
Date: September 26, 2020 12:11PM

So Mexico is paying for the wall on a payment plan, or ..?

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: September 26, 2020 02:33PM

Though there have been several plans put forth for them to do so with the Presidents hands tied by a do nothing congress not one of them has gotten any traction.

Since President Trump took office he's been beset by every member of the democratic party, many members of his own party and the media making almost any forward progress difficult. This indeed is odd since he, like Obozo also had a majority in congress for his 1st 2 yrs in office.

Obozo by comparison had almost unanimous support from within his majority in congress and a complicit media that fawned over any actions he took and was always at the ready to help conceal any missteps as well

quasi Report This Comment
Date: September 27, 2020 10:43PM

Poor Donald, more mistreated than Abraham Lincoln. Maybe he should go to the theater and watch a play to forget his troubles for a little while.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: September 28, 2020 12:17AM

Oh, and about the wall, here's the latest. Of course, if you don't like it no matter its veracity all you have to do is call it fake because it doesn't come from the presidential ministry of propaganda, right?

[www.cbsnews.com]