Quote:Anecdotal as it is, my public education was far superior to my private one from K-8. I am sure some are fantastic whoever and I honestly have no problem with private schools at all. There is a place, I think for privately ran institutions for a myriad of reasons. What I do have a problem with is the for profit colleges that are not even accredited. Multiples have had to shut down after being sued by the government for predatory lending practices and flat out lying to students to get them to take out massive loans. They prey on the poor and on the military and those practices should be outlawed because it sure is not the free market regulating itself in this case. 

 

I have no problem with there being private schools either.  I just don't get the shift toward wanting to privatize education.  My grandfather was as conservative as they come, and he was pro-public education.  People like him were why I was conservative in my youth.  Then again, I suppose he wouldn't have much in common at all with today's conservatives.  The Republican party certainly isn't what it was back in the 1940's.  

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