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We could just ban schools. That would end school shootings. School shootings are still too rare to be able to find any real cause to all of them. Some shooters have even been home schooled so we would have to end that as well.
What shallow thinking...
"Private schools serve the privileged few" because that is the market that is left to them. "Public" schools (state schools, more correctly), are funded through coercion and thus enjoy a practical monopoly on general "education". Eliminate state schools and you open the general education market to private education, which will result in innovation and competition. There will ALWAYS be schools catering to the wealthy, as there are now within the "public school" paradigm. In a free market, at least the lower end of the economic scale will at least enjoy those benefits of innovation and competition.
Just take a look at inner city school districts, with their abysmal graduation rates, literacy rates, etc. Private companies don't survive that kind of performance.
Advocating for that system is unjustifiable.
What are you stating, that a local school near where I live shouldn't be funded by the government? There are at least may be three in my area.
I thought it was pretty clear what I was stating.
You see private schools within the state-school paradigm and think that private schools only cater to the wealthy. That is vaguely accurate, but only because the lower end of the economic scale is monopolized by the state schools. Remove the coercive state schools, and the vacuum left will be filled by private education services; and most importantly, innovation will flourish because there will be competition in the market - companies will compete to gain market share, finding ways to deliver education more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Those on the lower end of the economic scale should benefit from lower property taxes or lower rents (which admittedly is a bit of a hope, because there's no reason to assume that the state will willfully lower tax rates). Yet as technology advances, education becomes more and more accessible, even within the current paradigm. Just IMAGINE how innovative the market would become absent the coercive state-school!
Ender of all people?
My life has been spent helping people through real education and arts.
And I absolutely believe that Public "Education" should be done away with. Even most private schools sign up with the gov for certain benefits & then have to abide by gov rules such as Common Core- or whatever the official indoctrination method is at the moment.
Any "public" schools should only be done on a local community level & most private schools would become financially reasonable.
And, of course, homeschooling- especially for grammar school age, is THE best option, IMHPOV.
There is no spoon.
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