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Students aren't the customers, they don't write the checks and make the decisions. A charter school can provide a bad education and convince parents to fund the
by ThrustVectoring 8y ago
Students aren't the customers, they don't write the checks and make the decisions. A charter school can provide a bad education and convince parents to fund them anyways - touting religious stuff seems like the easiest path for this.
- mwfunk 8y agoIn fact, what most people would consider "a bad education" in some cases might even be the parents' reason for putting their kids in such a school to begin with. Like, they'd really rather homeschool them for religious or tribal indoctrination reasons, but for whatever reason they can't, so a charter school might be the next best thing to them.
- nostrademons 8y agoThere's a principal-agent problem with all parenting: you're making decisions on behalf of another human being and hoping that those decisions line up with the best interests and wishes of the person in question. Obviously this isn't always the case, but both common sense and Western legal traditions assume that the parent's interests will be most closely aligned with their child, and that they're better suited to make those decisions than a bureaucrat, a CEO, or even a teacher. Societies that assume the state is better qualified to make decisions on behalf of children than the parents are have gone to dark places.