# Thoughts on National Healthcare **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 2, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204 "2008-02-02T06:55:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204/14 "2008-02-05T13:24:03Z")
> [@Good Finds At M&M ........](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/good-finds-at-m-m/34750/5): > > You’re joking right? The reason private schools are good is because nobody would pay money to go to one if it sucked. Crappy private schools don’t succeed, but public schools can blow donkey nuts and they keep getting budget increases from our wonderful government anyway. > > The parents sending kids to private schools already pay school taxes to fund the public schools (which suck). The parents choose to pay for school twice, so that their kids can get a better education. The real answer would be to eliminate teachers unions and tenure, and to allow people to choose which public school they wanted to attend, rather than forcing them to attend a certain one based on their physical address/zip code. reading comprehension please…i’m not debating quality of private schools…i’m debating the quality of public due to private schools if you don’t think public would get better if all kids had to go to them your kidding yourself. you don’t think that if there were no private schools the rich would demand better from the fed & pubilc school system? there are pubilc schools in pgh that don’t even have enough book so kids can take them home to study & do homework… WTF is up with that 2nd…the reason taxes are so high in some area has a lot to due to services offered to students within the school…speech, math, special ed, etc… 3rd…if you live in they city you can send your kid to a different public one then the one in your area. like i said…its a combination of parents & schools who are failing out children & the system. when a teacher has a 50 min class & spends 20mins disciplining them & only 30mins teaching thats a problem from home… when a teacher has to follow the no child left behind shit & your child misses out on a real learning experiences… thats a problem from the fed. we can go on & on & on. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thoughts-on-national-healthcare/195204)._