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The “school system” used to be “20 parents in a town agree to pay a teacher to live here and teach”. If she did a bad job she’d be fired. The incentives are rig
by wincy 7y ago
The “school system” used to be “20 parents in a town agree to pay a teacher to live here and teach”. If she did a bad job she’d be fired. The incentives are right that way, now the “customer” (ostensibly the parents, or the child) is no longer actually the customer.
- linuxftw 7y agoA lot of places have charter schools now. Pretty much has come full circle. Nobody uses public school unless they have to.
- war1025 7y agoDepends a lot on the area I'd guess. Here in Iowa people are generally pretty happy with the public schools in my experience.
- jefurii 7y agoThat's anti-public school FUD paid for by the charter/private school lobby. linuxftw, you remember FUD dont you?
- microcolonel 7y agoOr is this anti-charter-school FUD paid for by the union/public school lobby? This is not a convincing counterargument, even though sometimes it's a convincing original argument.
- microcolonel 7y agoRelevant: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-teachers-union-venezuela-trip-20190819-tbpa3lhjifduxgupdxfs3mosr4-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-teac...
- linuxftw 7y agoIf public schools worth worth a darn, there would be no/little demand for private schools or charter schools. Public schools are like they cable company. They claim they can only compete if they have an absolute monopoly. Public schools are dying because public schools are trash. Time to stop throwing our money at that cesspool.