Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
The problem about poor people getting shitty and cheap education is....
right now poor people get shitty and expensive education.... so shitty and cheap education would actually be a plus.
Private and Magnet schools(schools that are public but lack government oversight past the individual school level) far outperform public schools... even when you take everything into account. (That is the private and magnet schools that accept students soley from random lottery.) The teachers who work in the private and Magnet schools actually make LESS then their public school compatriots in the same districts.
I think what the US needs to do is abolish the Department of Education and School Systems, and instead let public schools run independly vs each other... and you get so much money per student.
Make schools compete vs each other, rather then having a monopoly in one area to where you know you'll always have students.
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I'm not automatically against that idea (though I have reservations). But I am automatically against properly free market education, that would clearly just hugely disadvantage poor kids.
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A flat our free market education system wouldn't work in the same way a flat our free market road and highway infrastructure wouldn't work. But it's more about creating more options and giving back more control to the local level. It's your local taxes that pay for the local schools so why don't they get much say in the education system itself?
