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By sending your kids to a private school, aren't you contributing to the exodus from public schools that make schools in the city such a disaster to begin with?
by habitue 11y ago
By sending your kids to a private school, aren't you contributing to the exodus from public schools that make schools in the city such a disaster to begin with?
- rayiner 11y agoIt's a collective action problem. I'd love for all the parents of my generation to move back into the city and send their kids to public school, so we could have schools where middle class values and culture dominate. But I won't if everyone else doesn't. The cost of that is potentially quite a bit more than the cost of private school: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549711/Children-learn-most-from-peers-not-parents.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549711/Children-lear....
- habitue 11y agoI get that, I just meant to point out it's a collective action problem in both cases. There are different trade-offs for you personally though which might make you pick one over the other.
- aetherson 11y agoOf course you are. But it's multiplayer Prisoner's Dilemma. You cooperating won't magically make everyone else start cooperating, it'll just mean that you're on the bad side of a cooperate/defect rewards box.