Imagine if you will, a world in which what you mention were true. Taxpayer money, rather than given to schools based on student attendance, was given to parents in the name of each student. Let's call them 'vouchers', for lack of a better word.
The parents would then look around at the selection of schools and choose the one they thought best. In this way, good performing schools would prosper and poor performing schools would eventually improve or perish.
Over a period of time, the worst performing schools left would be better than the schools we have now. And the top performing schools? Marone. In this way, all boats would rise.
Think of it as a sort of free market education market, for as we all know, competition and self interest (Ayn Rand) drive success and innovation.
Nah. What would the teacher's unions say?
Never mind. Let's just keep doing what we're doing.
What could go wrong?
