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America Has Too Many Teachers

• delinka 14y ago
  "Even as a tiny, mostly nonprofit niche, American private education is substantially more efficient than its public sector, producing higher graduation rates and similar or better student achievement at roughly a third lower cost than public schools..." And that's because private schools can choose their students. They're not required to accept every applicant regardless of their ability to pay (i.e. just because you can pay the tuition doesn't mean they'll take your underperforming student.) The purpose of the public education system is to guarantee everyone access to minimal education, regardless of ability or cultural heritage (e.g. that culture that does not value education in the least, sends their children to school to get them out of the house for a few hours or because the law says they have to attend.) Privatize it all you want, but as long as there's a requirement for every student to be accepted, you'll see lower scores overall. tl;dr - there are cultural aspects to successful education. I didn't say 'racial' or 'genetic.' I live very close to rural, white, low-income families and they just don't value education. That needs to change. On the other side of the county, it's mostly white, upper-middle class families and they do value education.