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Shogun 
private business is not a panacea and doesn't always destroy government business. I'm betting that your local police force is not a private business. Why not?
Private businesses are not destroying government businesses. Private schools would do generally better than public schools because of a better workforce. Like you said, private businesses aren't the solution to everything, but it is for education.
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Shogun Inideed, and whose to say that they won't be WORSE than what we have now as millions of average kids fall between the cracks so that competitiveness amongst teachers causes more effort in advertising than education while fighting for the best crop of students? the FACT is that private schools cannot handle the capacity of all the students that public schools take on and I think you people are naieve as hell about the repercussions of your own ideas while trying to sell the concept.
If the teachers in the private schools can't handle all the public school students, I say change the public school teachers.
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Shogun it's a classic motivation behind demonising public schools for the sake of private schools. This thread complains about math and science scores while your solution thus far is to thrust kids into a private environment where it's ok to teach kids that a jewish ghost is more valid than the scientific method. Ironic considering the thread title.
Thrust kids into a private environment OR change the public school teachers teaching method.