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Originally Posted by Moejoe
No offence meant but everything you have said is antithetical to the majority opinion in Europe. I fear it's a cultural rift that will never bridged. But (on the whole) we do think that health insurance should be for everyone, that education should be available to all, and not dependent on means, that a child should not go hungry because of their parents and that everyone should have an equal footing, whether state funded or by some other means.
When I see statements such as yours I feel greatly saddened, and that is probably because of my cultural surroundings. But it always brings to mind what my English teacher told me once when he found me with sweets that I refused to share with the rest of the class. It has stuck with me for a very long time:
I care not for thee jack, for I am in the lifeboat.
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And where does this European way of "equal footing" lead?
Colleges full of students who don't know why they are in a college? or know quite well that they are there to get 30 or36? quid of a weekly allowance? That if they don't go to college they will have to work! What a horror! Work! Level of education is falling down dramatically. Exam difficulty is lowering so that student can pass no matter how stupid and lazy they are, because teachers are driven crazy by government to achieve goals, numbers, numbers, numbers....doesn't matter how, doesn't matter consequences.
Computer students, 16 years old in a college do not know fractions??
We have almost closed the gap in achievements between white and asian ethnic minorities??????
How can you do it? If someone is stupid/don't want to study/lazy, who cares what is his ethnic background?? How do they close the gap? By lowering exam difficulty levels?
Equality is THE biggest BS I have ever come across and I have studied in former Soviet Union and in Israel. I have a very good idea of how hard one must work and study if one wants to achieve something, to pass a test etc.
You must pay for your education after you leave school or go to work.
It is only one aspect of equal opportunities that are being advertised all over Europe. It is going to have very dire consequences.
I agree with absolutely everything that
desertgrandma said here.