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Quote by: lindsay7  I don't think there should be tax payer funded schools at all. There should be a lot less taxes, and everyone uses private schools.
There would be competition between private schools, because they are trying to attract customers. The parents are in control and pick and choose which school they want to send their kids to, depending on quality and what they can afford, and what the school teaches.
For example, if you want your children to learn about recreational drugs in school, you can pick a school that caters to that market of families who want that. |
I don't think you've visited a place called reality lately...
Kids need to go to the school closest to them, so they can take the bus or walk usually. Not all parents are available to cart their children off fifty miles to some special school that fits their bill...
Moreover, simple economics dictate that the best schools will pop up in the wealthier areas while the poor areas will have crappy schools. The poor kids end up going to the crappy schools, and the rich kids end up going to the good schools and the cycle of poverty and class-gap widens.
This already happens to some extent with publicly funded schools but it would get out of control if they were privatized.
Some things just aren't suited to the capitalist system.
As for the drug thing, no. I think school should leave the "socialization" out of their curriculum.