There’s a Simple Solution to the Public Schools Crisis

Well, this should work. SC, does it work for you?

Sounds like the Onion.


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John Cook

The ongoing (but maybe soon to end?) teachers' strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education—stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations, dilapidated schools, angry teachers, underserved students. There is one simple step that would go a long way toward resolving many of those issues: Make all schools public schools.

How about this. Works without taking private property.

Require all politicians to send their kids to public schools of whatever district they represent. No private schools until college time.

RenegadeCJ wrote: How about this. Works without taking private property.

Require all politicians to send their kids to public schools of whatever district they represent. No private schools until college time.

Future healthcare will be similar to the Education model. Standardized Medicare and Obamacare for the masses. And concierge private care for the elites! (Including elected officials).

LOL wrote: Future healthcare will be similar to the Education model. Standardized Medicare and Obamacare for the masses. And concierge private care for the elites! (Including elected officials).

You are correct sir! Private to public always makes for efficiency and excellence!! :woo hoo:

I think the solution to the problem is more simple than that. Future teachers are trained by present teachers, or past teachers. How can the system get better when the same bad ideas are passed on through time? They cant. When I started the education program down at Metro I was told the first day that the majority of students were victims of the system. They have only been victimized by the piss-poor teachers and administrators that have compounded the problems with every new batch of teachers. Before I get flamed, not all teachers are bad. The system that hires (and fires) teachers needs to be based on performance and the teachers themselves need left out of that process.

Make all public schools private. That'd be a real fix.

Author is obviously a collectivist. Symptoms include, but are certainly not limited to, failing to understand that the consolidation that has occurred in public schools over the last 30 years is the source of, not the solution to, the systemic problems of the public school system throughout the Union today. If the public school model was a successful one, then no one would be looking to find a better alternative for their child in a private setting. The reality that so many are tells us that the model should be abandoned in favor of one that has a better chance of achieving the desired result.

When you kept getting shoddy products from the same provider, you find a different provider if you can. If there is only one provider putting out an inferior product, you are forced to accept the inferior product because it is the only one available. The system which provides the best products at the lowest cost is the one which champions a large diversity of providers competing for business, not the one which consolidates all the products to being distributed by a sole provider. A monopoly is never a good thing; it is why we don't allow those who build cars, distill gasoline, manufacture light bulbs, clothing, tires, or any other product or service we consume to have sole control of a market. When one has no competition, one can charge higher prices for an inferior product and do harm to both the consumers of the goods or services and the society in general; all while continuing in business to the benefit of only themselves.

Why so many continue to believe that a monopoly in the private sector is a bad thing and monopoly in the public sector a good one has always baffled me. One must sever any tether to logic or reason in order to adopt it to begin with, let alone continue to forward it as being the preferred model year after year, decade after decade. By any objective standard, the consolidation of schooling over the last 30 years has resulted in less effective schooling; so how can it be hoped that we will believe that more consolidation still will not result in even less effective schooling than we already have given the history available for us to examine?