re: #630 drcordell

Public education is a public good just like police protection, or military protection, or many other government services.

Really. So someone who sends their kids to a failed (for decades, btw) inner city school system should just STFD and STFU even though across town there is another PUBLIC school that is doing okay!
Where else do we see this as applied to “public good”. Do inner city residents get LESS police or military protection than in other parets of town? AND, if it is a “public good” yet fails to educate we should just keep it going? WHy? Do you not think we would have made drastic changes in the military if we kept losing conflict after conflict? Do the police/ fire/ public works depts not change when something they are doing is failing?

Privatize the education system and see how well that impacts the nation.

In that private schools by and large have a higher literacy/ graduation percentage, I would say the impact would be to the POSITIVE