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> That's fine and dandy, but we need to accept the fact that private organizations worked better than the government to immediately provide the service of educa
by gilbetron 5y ago
> That's fine and dandy, but we need to accept the fact that private organizations worked better than the government to immediately provide the service of education.
There's much wrong with what you have posted here and elsewhere, but I'll just focus on this one. There are numerous studies looking at private vs public schools, and public schools are just as good as private if you get rid of confounding factors (private school students tend to come from wealthier families, for instance).
There are many, many sources for this, here's a good start:
https://www.upworthy.com/public-versus-private-school-a-study-found-just-one-factor-can-make-all-the-difference https://www.upworthy.com/public-versus-private-school-a-stud...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherrim/2019/07/03/why-wealthy-parents-are-increasingly-choosing-public-over-private-schools/?sh=3dee83233425 https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherrim/2019/07/03/why-w...
https://www.hepg.org/hel-home/issues/31_1/helarticle/turning-conventional-wisdom-on-its-head-public-sch https://www.hepg.org/hel-home/issues/31_1/helarticle/turning...
- iammisc 5y agoYou are arguing something completely different. I pointed out that before public schools, there were large networks of private schools. Public schooling started as a response to the success of catholic schools. I am not arguing for superiority of one over the other. I'm just pointing out that decentralized, distributed decision making led to people's educational needs being met before government got with the program. Also, your articles are on public v generic private. Catholic schools are outliers in the private school space. They tend to be significantly cheaper, have a different set of outcomes, and tend to be more socioeconomically representative of society at large.