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To: wagglebee
The free market is the answer, someone should open a private school.
3 posted on 05/13/2015 9:29:23 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: fungoking
The free market is the answer, someone should open a private school.
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Unfortunately, there is no free market in K-12 schooling. Government schools are price-fixed cartel giving a service away at tuition-free. They are compulsory attendance for students whose parents can not ransom them and compulsory funded by the tax-payer. This guarantees customers and funding. They are also a socialist-entitlement. Finally, they are tax-paid minor leagues for the biggest professional sports.

Government schools suck the oxygen out of the room of the free market.

20 posted on 05/13/2015 9:46:21 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: fungoking
The free market is the answer, someone should open a private school.

That is part of the answer; but, for it to work well one would first have to go with a complete voucher system. Not just for poor minorities; everyone gets a voucher. Then, schools compete for your child (and their voucher) and parents would then be able to choose a school that would fit their child best.

Needless to say, the teacher's unions would never allow it.

27 posted on 05/13/2015 10:04:55 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: fungoking

There are private schools there. Catholic schools.


29 posted on 05/13/2015 10:08:16 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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