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- 5. Gallup: Public Schools Worst Place to Educate ChildrenOnly 37 percent of Americans think public schools provide students with an excellent or good education, according to a Gallup Poll that gives public schools the lowest marks among five types of schooling.Respondents were asked their opinion of American public schools, based on what they have heard or their own experience. Only 5 percent said the schools are “excellent,” and another 32 percent say they are “good,” while 42 percent say they are “only fair” and 19 percent chose “poor.”Compared to the 37 percent of respondents who rate public schools as excellent or good, 78 percent say independent private schools are excellent or good — 31 said excellent and 47 percent said good.Parochial and church-related schools ranked second, with 21 percent saying they provide an excellent education and 48 percent saying they provide a good education. That’s a combined 69 percent positive rating.Charter schools came in third, with 17 percent saying they provide an excellent education and 43 percent saying they provide a good education, for a combined 60 percent positive rating.Home-schooling came in fourth, with 13 percent saying it provides an excellent education and 33 percent saying it provides a good education, for a combined 46 percent who give it a positive rating.Public schools finished fifth — last place.Only 2 percent said independent private schools give students a “poor” education, 5 percent said that about parochial and church-related schools and charter schools, and 14 said they thought home-schooling provides students with a poor education.Democrats generally gave public schools a higher rating than did Republicans — 46 percent of Democrats said public schools provide an excellent or good education, compared to 33 percent of Republicans and 34 percent of independents.Among the respondents who are parents sending their children to school in grades K through 12 this year, 83 percent said they were sending their child to a public school, 9 percent to an independent private school, and 2 percent to a parochial or church-related school.“Americans in general are not highly satisfied with the state of public schooling in the United States, although that is probably not a commentary on their own child’s school and schools in their local area because Americans have historically been quite satisfied with each of those,” Gallup observed. “Rather, Americans may just have a general sense that U.S. public education is not where it needs to be, perhaps due to news media reports that American students lag behind students in other countries in basic academic skills.”
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- AMERICAN PLAN FOR ATTORNEY FEES . . INTERESTING AND IT EXPLAIN WHY WE ARE SO LITIGIOUS - SPLIT FEES AND COSTS - LEADS TO MORE FEES AND MORE CASES . .But if Jefferson’s decimal coinage concept was a good idea that quickly spread around the world, another idea that developed here at that time was lousy: the so-called American Rule, whereby each side in a civil legal case pays its own court costs regardless of outcome. This was different from the English system where the loser has to pay the court costs of both sides.
The American Rule came about as what might be called a deadbeat’s relief act. The Treaty of Paris (which ended the American Revolution) stipulated that British creditors could sue in American courts in order to collect debts owed them by people who were now American citizens. To make it less likely that they would do so, state legislatures passed the American Rule. With the British merchant stuck paying his own court costs, he had little incentive to go to court unless the debt was considerable.
The American Rule was a relatively minor anomaly in our legal system until the mid-20th century. But since then, as lawyers’ ethics changed and they became much more active in seeking cases, the American Rule has proved an engine of litigation. For every malpractice case filed in 1960, for instance, 300 are filed today. In practice, the American Rule has become an open invitation, frequently accepted, to legal extortion: “Pay us $25,000 to go away or spend $250,000 to defend yourself successfully in court. Your choice.”
Trial lawyers defend the American Rule fiercely. They also make more political contributions, mostly to Democrats, than any other set of donors except labor unions. One of their main arguments for the status quo is that the vast number of lawsuits from which they profit so handsomely force doctors, manufacturers, and others to be more careful than they otherwise might be. Private lawsuits, these lawyers maintain, police the public marketplace by going after bad guys so the government doesn’t have to—a curious assertion, given that policing the marketplace has long been considered a quintessential function of government.
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- Ronald Reagan on Feeding the CrocodileAre you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing, 1964 Speech, Internet Modern History
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