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Another reason why I soured on the ''privatize the public schools'' meme. What recourse is there for a child's parents if the ''privatized'' public school is a fraud? After receiving (tens of) thousands of 'voucher' money mind you.
Fred Reed and John Derbyshire have a suggestion; Public/publicly funded only up to 5th grade.
After that, whatever else is the parents (and of course, child's) responsibility.
Granted, that wouldn't happen, because, for the most part, schools exist for two reasons:
1. Day care to at least age 16 - and for more than a few, an alternative to just plain jailing them. Because the biological parents won't (or due to drugs/alcohol/incarceration/in US illegally can't) take any responsibility for their offspring - and there is no practical way to make them do so.
2. A ''minor league'' for sports - not just ''sportsball'', all of them.
Dec 21, 2016, 7:30:46 PM
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