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Progressive Politics, Gun Control, Single Payer Healthcare and Free Abortions for All!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At a minimum you guys could at least attempt to understand the argument.

https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/21/opinion-school-choice-is-a-scam-designed-to-hurt-the-most-vulnerable-students/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/alabama-political-reporter/

Tl;DR: "School choice" is as good for freedom as the Patriot Act was for privacy. It's a bullshit label to cover for the fact that the actual policy ends up fucking over society by under funding already struggling schools and instead giving the money to corporations that already have too much power.

[–] Bongo_Stryker 1 points 2 years ago

Well I happen to think public schools in the USA are some of the best schools In America.

But school privitization is a purely ideological fever dream of Milton Friedman who believed that the profit driven free markets are the most efficient at doing everything, and that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. This makes sense ifor widget factories and pottery barns, but not public services, not childcare and not the education of a nation's citizens. Efficiency is not the most important metric of success if it means making services unaffordable or unavailable to portions of the public. A profit seeking school could deny service to learning disabled or neurodivergent children. Trying to make a profit in cases like this would probably mean more government intervention, and the results are usually less beneficial to the public than the government services provided in the first place.

Anyway, private schools aren't any better than public schools. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/special/special-sections/2018/07/27/study-private-schools-not-better-at-educating-kids/11260129007/