> Uh, are you suggesting the municipalities should just deny education to the unprofitable students? I did not suggest anything like that anywhere in my commen

> Uh, are you suggesting the municipalities should just deny education to the unprofitable students? I did not suggest anything like that anywhere in my comment. Municipalities have to teach hard/expensive students in either scenario. Based on the article, they are leaving easy/cheap students on the table for the private sector, who can profit from scale and from the students being cheaper to teach. There will be independent schools that only accept easy students whether the municipalities like it or not. The choice municipalities have is whether to run their own schools attracting such students and socialise some of the profits instead of letting it all go to the private sector.