Quote:Bull honky. The solution is not to privatize everything. Education should not be left up to the free market and beholden to share holders. You know what happens? Same thing that happens with privatized Healthcare. If you cant afford it you don't get to go to school. This is 2015 not the middle ages where only the rich got education. 

 

 

Quote:Privatize education?


And what... end up with for-profit schools, like we have for-profit colleges?  No thanks.  Now THAT is class warfare.

 

I know it's radical but just take a step back and think about it. What initiative does the education system have today to make sure they're providing the best service? Sure some within the education system don't need a reason, it's a noble cause and work a thankless job to provide a better future, but you'd agree that's not across the board. If a school is failing do they have to worry about closing down? losing students to better schools? I'd argue schools would be 100% more efficient if ran by private institutions. 

 

You can even still have public funding for education if you fear only the rich getting an education, that's not even the angle I'm coming from. But if you gave the parents for example something like the voucher program, and said ok you pick the school your kids are going to attend. At the very LEAST you're now giving schools an incentive to produce better educated students, competition breads improvement.

 

There's plenty of places this has been implemented on small scales, vouchers and scholarships for poor kids in districts with horrible schools. You want to talk about helping the poor, give the kids a chance at a decent education instead of damning them to go to the same horrible schools located in the poverty districts. We wonder why poverty is such a constant cycle, I'd argue it has plenty to do with making families prisoners of their own communities.

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