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I don’t see GP proposing privatizating.
by MBCook 1y ago
I don’t see GP proposing privatizating.
- tw04 1y agoHe is literally proposing privatizing and has in the past. I can’t help your refusal to follow his statement to its logical conclusion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182657#45197662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182657#45197662
- MBCook 1y agoWow. I managed to miss a single word despite reading three times to check. Ugh. Sorry.
- deadbolt 1y ago[flagged]
- mhb 1y agoI literally did not literally propose privatizing in these comments. Here all I said was that public schools are dysfunctional if they are producing high school and college graduates who can't do elementary school math. The solution to that dysfunction was outside the scope of this discussion. Literally.
- tw04 1y agoSo what’s your solution?
- mhb 1y agoVouchers. Like Milton Friedman advocated.
- tw04 1y agoSo literally privatizing schools. Because vouchers will simply cause public schools to collapse while allowing private schools to pick and choose who to educate. I can guarantee you they won’t be accepting the students with low math scores who have absentee parents that treat school like a daycare. Let me guess: if we just ignore the scores of those problem children who no longer have access to education, the math scores will look better? “Let the market decide who DESERVES education.” What could possibly go wrong?
- mhb 1y agoSo that's the argument you want to have and you're not going to be happy until you have it? How about this? Assume that it's more important for your interlocutors to improve education than it is for them to win a debate. Assume that they would like everyone to get a great education. Presumably, we agree that public schools, in general, are not, currently doing a great job. I'm also assuming that, for some reason, they used to do a significantly better job. I don't know what the point would be of recapitulating Friedman's arguments for school choice and vouchers in these comments. He's much smarter and a better writer than anyone you're likely to find here. If you've read them and made up your mind, a handful of HN comments are not going to sway you. If you haven't read them you should.