Why is this man not out next president?

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Jackson50 said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

I think education is a basic human right, and I think your education should be safer than the shopping skills of your parents and how much money they have.  Not every parent can afford to pay more for a better education for their kids.  That means poor families put their kids in poor schools.  That would be very bad.

Or am I missing something here?  What if a parent doesn't want to buy an education for their stupid expensive baby?  Is the magical Libertarian government going to invade my privacy and tell me how to raise my kid or force me to put them in school?  I'll shoot the sons of bitches.  They can't tell me how to spend my money.

 

Are you unaware of what a subsidy is? I am not proposing we close down state run schools and tell parents to fend for themselves. The US spends approximately $9,000 per pupil on education every year. What consumer subsidized education would allow is the parents to use that $9,000 on a school of their choice. If you are poor and do not want your kid going to a run-down inner city school, take your kid and the money, and enroll in a private/independent school. In a land where freedom and liberty supposedly rain supreme, why do we force our parents and children to use their money at schools they do not wish to attend? If they decide a vocational school or an arts & sciences academy is the best option, should they not be allowed that choice? If they want to take their kid to a school that uses the methods of  Montessori in lieu of the methods of Pestalozzi, should they not be allowed that choice?. Why should we expect public schools to improve? They face no competition. What is the impetus for improvement? There is none. If we allow parents to choose the school their child attends, it will force all schools to improve their quality. If not, no one will attend their schools and they go out of business. 

 

So we should prohibit parents and children from choosing their education because of a few bad apples? That makes no sense. Implement school choice and the American education system will improve vastly. I, just like you, think education is a basic human right and that access should be universal. We differ, however, on whether or not we would allow freedom of choice.

Well said. The "but some parents are bad at making choices" is a strawman argument.

If a parent is bad at making choices, the kid is fucked no matter what. Those types of problems extend far beyond anything even the most perfect school system could repair. Implementing a forced, universal, generalized approach to education won't help stupid parents one bit and the negatives of our current approach far outweigh the negatives of approaching the education system in a proactive, competitive manner.