[Platt] Whoa. Who said we abolished taxes? [Arlo] I am thinking ahead to the free-market education you envision. Are you saying we will still force everyone to pay school taxes? Are you in favor of a mixed system of public/private rather than a complete transition to an entirely private system?
[Platt] What parent do you know who is going to deliberately send his child to a rotten school? What parent do you know who isn't going to try to send his child to the best school available? [Arlo] A lot of wind, but no answer. Certainly parents will send their kids to the "best school they can afford", but are you suggesting the quality of all these schools will be similar? That the schools Donald Trump can afford will not be better than the schools Joe Miner can afford? What will happen is obvious, schools will congregate along class-lines. Poor families that can't afford good schools will get crappy second rate ones (its all they will be able to afford). Rich kids will get the best education. You keep saying "you don't understand the free market", then explain to me why the "free market" has the poor driving old jallopies and the rich driving around in Lexuses. Or the poor lodging at Motel 6 while the rich stay at the Hilton? Why would it be any different with education? Why would the "free market" provide an equal in quality education for poor and rich alike, but not for any other commodity it provides? Or (I ask again), do you think having the poor receive lower quality education is natural and right? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
