Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [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?
Naturally there will be a transition phase before all schools become private. > [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? Of course not, no more so than they are today. Quality will vary as always. > 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. Giving parents a voucher and a choice, schools will compete for students, raising quality. > 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? I never claimed all schools would be, or should be, equal. But they would be better overall than they are today due to competition. > 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? Public schools today aren't equal in quality education. In fact, most public schools do a lousy job. So what's your point? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
