anomaly said:
right now the gov't funds all public schools in the USA. I don't think that any business could successfully run any schools (and any business would inevitably want to manage more than one school) without a drastic increase in tuition rates.
Tuition rates to current private schools average about half the tuition amount per student attending public schools. This would probably improve even further with more market competition. And many people would be interested in running a school. Lots of people like helping others and teaching, as well as upkeeping a business.
anomaly said:
Even with these increases, a business (and I believe that any school business would have to focus on education and probably not anything else as it is such a huge area) would find it difficult to maintain a surplus of school materials as more and more students go to a school each year, there is a population increase in most schools of the USA each year.
Smart businesses can easily learn to account for an annual increase in customers. Businesses everywhere right now already account for increase in consumers. Even if a school found it too difficult to guess what the increase would be, they could have their registration in the beginning of summer.
anomaly said:
These tuition rates being so high means that not all students will receive an education (or another possibility is that, through competition tuition rates would become so low that the business could not afford quality materials) . In any rate, tuition rate increases would mean that not all students would be able to afford these business run schools.
Like I said before, private schools reduce costs. There would inevitably be a variety of schools offering a variety of prices and different quality service. Less fortunate people could send their children to less cutting-edge schools, while wealthier people could provide radical new possiblities in education.
anomaly said:
And your solution to this is charity run schools? Unlike taxes, people do not feel inclined to give charity. And you are depending on a tremendous amount of charity in each community to run these poor schools. Also, you must rely on a constant stream of charity, actually increasing amounts each year.
I would say the majority of the people in the US believe less fortunate children deserve an education. Why else do you think they created public education in the first place? Public education basically started out as a government run charity for less fortunates.
Also, charity schools could run off a lot less money. Other schools could offer their old supplies to the charities. People who are involved with volunteer work could become teachers. Lessons could be taught with less sophisticated supplies that may take longer but can still work.
anomaly said:
So what you would end up with is maybe 90% (and that's a kind estimate) of well educated students dominating 10% of poorly educated schools. I hope you realize that privatizing schools will NOT increase the literacy rate, as was my original question. Privatizing schools also means that not everyone will have a chance for education. This sort of thinking is based on the belief that the well-off kids somehow deserve better than poor kids. But if that's how you feel, then I guess privatizing schools is exactly what you want.
There's the fact that public schooling is also extremely unfair to the poor. The quality of schooling in each district differs immensely, and the districts with better schooling have more expensive housing. In this way, our inefficient public school system creates winners and losers anyways.
Our education system as it is does a terrible job. The dropout rates in public high schools is catastrophically high, where private school dropout rates are close to none. With private schools we would see WAY fewer dropouts.
People not interested in an education could always work their way up the ladder of success with job experience instead of high education. People that may not have had a great education as a child can save up to go to adult school and learn more.
Your views seem to be based off the fact that you have the right to tell others what to do. Time for you to wake up! Every person on this earth deserves the right of self-ownership. That includes making decisions for themselves, and not being FORCED into anything. Supporting the use of FORCE to achieve something is anti-democratic, unconstitutional, and inhumane.
anomaly said:
Also, I'd like to add that the USA will NEVER consider privatizing all schools, so your dream is and will always be just that, a dream.
Considering TONS of people already want slips to choose which school gets their tax money, fully privatized schooling is not far off. Stop trying to crush my beliefs by pretending like my way is not possible. Not only will it work, it is becoming more and more popular among people.