Quote: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.

You cannot fix the problem with privatizing everything. You also ignored the comparison to privatized medicine, which I think, is a fair one.

 

The free market is not perfect you just idolize it so refuse to see it's flaws. It tends towards monopolies and only a care for profits because that's the end game of free market capitalism. If regulated it can work but you want no regulations. You cannot put education in the hands of the rich which is what happens anytime privatization occurs.

 

If you privatize school, you will see the rise of rich schools and poor schools. One gets good teachers and one gets poor teachers. How does that even remotely help class warfare or poor neighborhoods? It would be the exact same thing now only with CEO's of school getting rich off something as important and needed as education?

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