This misses the point. The model is the mistake. Single payer education is not going to perform any better than single payer healthcare or Soviet collective farms. We have gone through at least 50 years of handwringing and “reform”. Nothing useful has been accomplished for the trillions spent, and there is no great idea or set of ideas that has any practical prospect of transforming a government system of education for the better. You can’t fix stupid, which is what single-payer education is.
The only answers are relatively radical answers, but we still have too many people who cling to the familiar - the government school system.
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And...It is discouraging and amazing to me how many conservatives think:
1) Their child's school is “different”.
2) That socialist-model and socialist funded government schools can some how be reformed if only the NEA shut down,... if only the Dept. of Education were abolished,... if only we could return to the 1950s,... if only we had 2 minutes of prayer sprinkled in the school day,... if only the socialist schools were local controlled... if only we returned to the basics,...if only phonics were taught...( whatever!)
Socialist funded and socialist model single payer government schools can NOT be reformed because it is **IMPOSSIBLE** to reform socialism! ( Yes, I am shouting. I am exasperated.)