Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

When I was supposed to be teaching science they wanted me to spend most of my time teaching kids hygiene and how to use forks and knives...
We are not parents and NEVER should be confused for them.
A science teacher is a science teacher is a science teacher... you cannot grade lectures on deodorant. It was BS.
I loved teaching college.

[Ibby]

I'm not saying ALL are, I'm just saying that I don't trust them. Especially after Hong Kong International School, where I went for third grade.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Ibram

I'm not saying ALL are, I'm just saying that I don't trust them. Especially after Hong Kong International School, where I went for third grade.

Fair enough. I accept the "indoctrination" part anyway - I was raised in a Catholic family, went to Mass every Sunday (and Holy Day of Obligation) and my parents moved into their house specifically to be close to a school which would educate us in the Catholic faith as well as getting a good education.

[xoxoxoBruce]

OK, the University of Pennsylvania encompasses:
Annenberg School for Communication
Graduate School of Education
School of Design
Law School
School of Arts and Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
School of Engineering and Applied Science
School of Medicine
School of Nursing
School of Social Policy & Practice
School of Veterinary Medicine
Wharton School

Penn calls them schools, but each one would be a college were it to stand alone. Some Universities call them colleges, some call the departments, it's all semantics. The important part is that except for some sharing of physical facilities, they could each operate as a College of their field.
If somebody says they graduated from Penn, I have to ask what degree the got to find out what they are trained in, law degree, business degree, medical degree, engineering degree, etc. Sometimes those degrees are broken down further, like mechanical engineering as opposed to electrical engineering.
Oh yeah, bachelors, Masters and PhD, too.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Penn calls them schools...

Each one has its own distinct admission office. One does not apply to the "University of Pennsylvania", one applies to the school of one's choice (at least at the graduate level) and is accepted or not by the school you applied to.

Canada has a system within which colleges and Universities are very different and the terms mean something completely different than they do in the states. Universities in Canada are the same as Universities in the states but colleges in Canada are more like American trade schools. In the US, a college is a "University" but with only one "school" where as American Universities have more than one school as in the University of Pennsylvania.

Also, American Universities and Colleges are either state supported or totally private. That matters inasmuch as state-supported schools must abide by non-statutory state and federal rules which can affect everything about the school whereas private Universities (such as Penn) are not bound by federal and state regulations other than the obvious statutory laws which, for example, might forbid teaching a course on overthrowing the United States Government.