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I asked why are school vouchers bad since it’s a single payer system. The “progressives” told me it would starve public schools of funds and students since pri
by EGreg 1y ago
I asked why are school vouchers bad since it’s a single payer system.
The “progressives” told me it would starve public schools of funds and students since private schools would admit only the best and brightest
So I said — don’t let the schools choose. Let the people choose. If the school is filled then you use a lottery for who can actually get in, M of N people. Simple.
- Brybry 1y agoDecades ago a local popular public magnet high school near me had a lottery system like that. Students would apply for the school and M of N applicants would be picked randomly. It turns out the administrators running the lottery would run the randomization program until it gave them the student distribution they wanted (read: the best and brightest, and since it's the south... somehow whiter than expected).
- EGreg 1y agoSo maybe the lottery shouldn’t be run by the school :)
- xorcist 1y agoThat has been tried before. What happens is that people choose the school where there is easiest to get good grades. Fast forward a generation or two and there is a race to the bottom, schools take their mission to prepare for standardized testing seriously at the expense of learning. Over time, our outcome will depend on what you measure. School systems are also special because you don't really want to overprovision school seats, so if there at the end of the day are as many seats as there are pupils in the system as a whole, there can only be selection and never competition in the economic sense.