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Originally Posted by BillyBob
Socialism fails everywhere it's tried and the public school system is no different.
It doesn't cost much to educate children, and when free enterprise is allowed to flourish there will be affordable private schools for all incomes.
And let's face it, there is a certain class of people  who don't give a flying crap about their children and whose children don't give a flying crap about their education. They have an astoundingly high drop out rate and spending money on their education is a waste of resources. |
Free enterprise is crap. Private companies are only going to build schools where rich people live and they are going to ignore rural areas. Thats why almost every developed country has a public school system, it bridges the disparities that the private system has failed to resolve.
Thats also why basic education is listed as a right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Countries understand the importance of education for development. I know people who are in private schools and there are some benefits to it, benefits which you have to pay substancially more to get. My experience in public school was great. Never had any problems with quality.
If you want to go backwards, then great, abolish public education. If anything the states should be allowed to decide which type of education system they want. Decentralization is a concept the US should start to adopt. It might help.