Monday, July 1, 2002, 7:33:33 PM, you wrote: JvD> Jon Hall wrote: >> I'm totally for the school voucher thing. Simply because what it will amout >> to is a set monetary figure for how much per student the government will >> spend on educating each child, and schools will be competing with each other >> for students. So not only does quality come into play, so do the economies >> of scale. The strength's of the market economy brought to education.
JvD> Didn't that happen a long time ago already and isn't that now commonly JvD> refered to as "grade inflation"? Funny :) >> What I envision is that in the end there will be fewer, larger school >> "chains" that will dominate the education industry. This will allow >> education to be much more efficient than the current system, but the >> downfall may be the quality of education received at the lowest level, but >> that should be self correcting because word will get out to the parents. JvD> But will all parents have the resources to actually send their children JvD> to the school they want? In other words, will the vouchers be large enough? That's my point, the end effect is that whatever the voucher amount is will end up being how much a year of education is going to cost. Expensive private schools will still be expensive private schools, but a new breed of lower cost private schools will be the end effect, with the freedom to get away from all the crap that public schools have to deal with. jon ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
