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- From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Chelsea's school ...
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 16:28:01 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- References: <nate.1049@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> <C0pHsC.9Ev@unix.portal.com> <1isp3cINN5em@meaddata.meaddata.com> <nate.1056@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
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- In article <nate.1056@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>, nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- |> johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:
- |> >The obvious difference here is that there can be only one defense force for
- |> >everyone in the country, but there exist many different schools. By
- |> >choosing a type of school for one's own child, one does not force that
- |> >choice upon the parents of any other child. What's so wrong with using
- |> >the forces of the free market system, which have proven beneficial in
- |> >everything else, in education?
- |>
- |> If the forces of the free market are beneficial in "everything else"
- |> then why are they so noticably absent from national defense? I submit to
- |> you that free market forces would have the exact same effect on national
- |> education that they would have on defense - in a word, "chaos".
-
- Hmm. Last I checked, we had the best damn military in the world, and it was
- precisely because the competition between the many private defense contractors
- has resulted in a significant technological edge over our adversaries. You're
- not such a racist that you think Americans are just naturally smarter and
- better fighters than anyone else, are you?
-
- IMO, the ideal solution to the education problems would be to completely
- privatize the entire system. Schools could be privately operated, and paid by
- local and state governments out of tax monies on a per-student basis. Some
- regulation, such as standardized testing, would be necessary, as it is with any
- public utility. This really isn't much different in principle from the voucher
- system that President Bush proposed.
-
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