“When we see some schools shutting down,” I responded.
In an education free market, parents are the customers. If they are not satisfied with a particular school’s offerings, they can and will leave—just as they would stop using any other product or service that doesn’t meet their expectations. If enough parents aren’t satisfied and leave, the school will shut down. This is a signal of a vibrant, competitive educational marketplace. It is the ultimate accountability metric.
The teacher's unions and politicians will never let the "dump the bad schools" happen. There's too much taxpayer money to rake off at stake.
ReplyDeleteI've got to agree with blogsidebunny on this, the Education Industry has too much money (& indoctrination) in the public schools to ever abandon them.
DeleteFollow the money...
Agreed bogsidebunny. Seems like a good reason to abolish Fed Dept of Education. On average at least 16K spent per pupil for what? Declining scores across nearly every measure, no need to pass reading and math competency exams to "graduate", average freshman college students read at 7th grade level, perverted and political indoctrination in lieu of basic education, white kids racially targeted for beatdowns...and the list goes on.
DeleteEven smaller rural school systems control many millions of dollars that go to electronic signs, new stadiums, year round "free" meals, and assumptive kickbacks to some.
It's dirty business by woke teachers union members sucking up more of the tax dollars while delivering an inferior product and harming children.
Hope more can/will get their their kids out of the mess and homeschool. They will do objectively better by every measure.
Toledo, OH has a school board containing several executives from the teacher's union - yet the Democrats keep electing them.
DeleteBogSideBunny nailed it. There's a lot of money at stake, and the Union votes the moonbat ticket.
Anonymous 11:46, Robert Heinlein remarked "We've gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to Bonehead English in College."
DeleteHe said this in 1980; I'm sure it's gotten worse since.
Agree completely. OUTLAW any and ALL Public funded unions, be they teachers, police, or dog catchers.
DeleteIt is racist to give student loans only to those qualified. So you have this flood of student load money out there which basically serves as a four year welfare check to the student that the schools keep. Cant fail anyone because school would lose that welfare check. So the student loan fiasco will keep us awash in schiffy schools.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see the word "Robust" I gag. What it means is, yell as much as you want but we will pretend your opinion matters and continue to do what we want.
ReplyDeleteThe system is set up against the students. Within a state of associate schools they have a general curriculum they all go by. Each school will change one minor thing in about half of their classes so the credit is only good at that school. A student with 2 years of credits transfers to another state school only half of the credits will transfer. The way around this is to get the two year degree and then transfer.
ReplyDeleteWe currently have a negative feedback loop where Teacher's Unions Fund Big Gov Politicians who protect bad schools and Bad Teachers from any consequences for failure.
ReplyDeleteThen they increase the size and funding of schools (To fix the problems) which funds more Union political donations.
Until we OUTLAW ALL Public Unions it will get worse.
Any Parent who allows their children to attend Public schools are Guilty of Child Abuse.