YOu contradict yourself in part….Charter Schools ARE private sector…NOT purely and not in all cases, but in many cases it is.
But you also miss the main point: your indemnification argument is a straw dog. If the system were privatized, that would not be an issue because a monstrous free market would be created, and wherever there is a monstrous free market, the market performs.
What would probably happen is that you’d start figuring out what the real cost of the education is. Some massive market exists for totally private sector education is what I’ve been told, but I haven’t seen that market.
If there was such a market, it would have probably evidenced itself at the college level perhaps.
There are very, very few private schools that don’t accept some sort of state or federal money.
One is Hillsdale College. Outstanding school, and not cheap. They don’t take a dime of government money for any reason.
I can’t think of another, but if such a market for totally private institutions then I should be able to think of at least a dozen.
People, in short, would have a cow if they had to pay the full freight of their education.
What I will grant is that if they DID have to pay an actual invoice for their education, the kids would be coming to school better prepared. . .
Or more realistically, they wouldn’t be coming at all.