As an entrepreneur, I see a huge market opportunity for affordable America Friendly private eduation in every town in America.
Go to a homeschool convention some time. You’ll see it in action. These are big. The SE Homeschool I spoke at was about 7,000.
I do, too.
Nice...I could get behind something like that. My younger daughters are nearly done with high school, and had I known when they all started what I know now, I would have wanted something like you propose as an option.
The curriculum, technology, and companies exist to do this. The problems is churches and parents - both of which are addicted to that form of aid-to-dependent-parents known absurdly as “free public schools”.
We love our middle-class welfare entitlements...
Government schools are a price-fixed monopoly that is giving a service away for FREE! If CEO’s of a private industry were to collude to undercut the price of a service or product in an effort to drive out the competition, they would be facing jail time.
The only solution I see is for conservatives to form private educational foundations that would award grants to individual teachers. The teachers would open **tuition-free** private one room school houses, mini-schools, or homeschool co-ops. The conservative foundations would certify the teacher, approve the curriculum, test the students, and run sport teams and group theater and art programs.
The conservative foundations must also politically organize its parents to work for the complete shut down of the government K-12 system of schools.
If government is giving its educational services away for free, the conservations must match this price: FREE!
You're right, but that "affordable" word is the big rub. In some states,charter schools are filling that gap.Hee in Colorado, people litterally try to sign their kids up for a waiting list as soon as they're born.
I fantasize that if I were a billionaire, I would buy up these old school buildings I see around my area and start america-friendly, private schools. The big expense would be to afford paying salaries/benefits to qualified teachers. Also, finding qualified, willing teachers would be a challenge.