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Do you also have school choice in the Netherlands like in Belgium? John Stossel had a special TV program on education and mediocrity in the United States, showing the teachers' union militant resistance to school choice. One thing that Stossel had shown however was that in the Belgian system, the education budget money is not attached to the school (determined by some head count), but to the student, and it was up to the schools to compete for the student. If the parent thinks that a particular school is not doing the teaching job, the parent is free to move the child to another school. Yes, government funding is still involved, but there is still a market mechanism where the parent decides where the child goes.

Do you also have school choice in the Netherlands like in Belgium? John Stossel had a special TV program on education and mediocrity in the United States, showing the teachers' union militant resistance to school choice. One thing that Stossel had shown however was that in the Belgian system, the education budget money is not attached to the school (determined by some head count), but to the student, and it was up to the schools to compete for the student. If the parent thinks that a particular school is not doing the teaching job, the parent is free to move the child to another school. Yes, government funding is still involved, but there is still a market mechanism where the parent decides where the child goes.

Yes school choice is completely free. But can't american parents choose which school they want their children to go to? It's only fair since the parent pays for the education.

Although it also depends on testing, you have to have past certain tests at primary school or you can't go to all highschools. We do have a lot of choice still, with Public schools, Catholic schools, Protestant schools, Jewish schools, Islamic schools, and even american and englisch schools for american and english children that live in holland.

One thing that Stossel had shown however was that in the Belgian system, the education budget money is not attached to the school (determined by some head count), but to the student, and it was up to the schools to compete for the student.

Brilliant. That would be a huge step in the right direction for public schools here. And what if you had to be legally in the country to get the taxpayers' money? And what if receipts could be turned in, up to a certain amount, for curriculum for homeschoolers?