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I'm all for the privitization of schools (voucher system). People recoil in horror when I say this. However, it's not nearly as bad as what people make it out t
by dereg 16y ago
I'm all for the privitization of schools (voucher system). People recoil in horror when I say this. However, it's not nearly as bad as what people make it out to be.
Government should get out of the school/education provisioning business. It hasn't worked, period. What I don't mind the government doing is providing education funding via vouchers.
Do you want a government bureaucrat deciding on how to allocate public education money? Think about it this way, do you want to maximize parent choice, and have them decide on the quality of a school, or do you want a board of education member deciding on the quality of schools?
Do you trust the decisions of a swarm self-interested parents and children or, or the decision of a self-interested government official? I trust the swarm.
- anamax 16y ago> Do you want a government bureaucrat deciding on how to allocate public education money? We let govt decide where people can spend food-stamps and what they can buy. Oh wait - we don't - there's not nearly the same level of govt control wrt food.
- rgraham 16y agoThat depends. Do agricultural subsidies count as control?
- anamax 16y ago> That depends. Do agricultural subsidies count as control? Even the most extreme interpretation of govt food control doesn't approach the amount of govt control in primary public education. (I find that folks who talk about various subsidies tend to overstate them if they're opposed and understate them if they support. Note how that lets each side claim that the other is lying. Curious that they never notice that they're both correct about that.) Or, are you suggesting that all amounts of control are the same?