> They were introduced because the existing school system was in decline Not true at all. Why are you making shit up? They were introduced to "give choice". A

> They were introduced because the existing school system was in decline Not true at all. Why are you making shit up? They were introduced to "give choice". And marketed - by the right-wing government at that time btw - like small teacher-led "idea-based" companies or similar would be the primary result, rather than the large stock-market school corps that have been the natural result. > Regardless, the point is that Scandinavian countries are not “socialist” in the way leftist Americans think of socialism. Just because Scandinavia (Sweden in particular) too has suffered with a massive wave of neo-liberal privatizations the last 30 years or so doesn't mean that the former more "socialist" way was in any way shape or form worse than the corrupt mess that we have here now.