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Shogun 
provatized schools would become no better than public schools as soon as the population of students shift from public to private. It's kinda like how Apple computers don't have as many malware bugs because not as many people use them as they do Pcs.
But privatized schools generally have better teachers than public school, so even if the population of students shifted from public to private, the teachers, who are generally better, should be able to handle the shift. If they can't, the private schools would just increase the amount of teachers per student.
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Shogun it's pretty rhetorical crap to suggest that kids learn to think instead of memorize by rote while imagining that staggered scale wages for "better" teachers will produce anything other than accusations of corruption while the PRODUCT of kids' education is not immediately discernible. As if these "good" teachers won't be teaching by rote while fighting over which kids will make their "success rate" appear better than everyone elses.
Kids will succeed more in school and life if they are taught to think on their own. It is NOT crap because if the students learn to think on their own, they will be able to apply what they know to the real world. We don't want robot kids who can only do things that are straightforward. We want them to be problem solvers that can survive the real world.
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Shogun hell, not to mention that teaching kids that a jewish ghost waved a magic finger in the science class will do them a lot of good in a private setting...
What are you talking about?