jillian
Princess
Hobbit said:You just can't seem to get it. It's called free market economics. If the public schools suffer no lack of funding from lack of business, they have no valid competition, ergo they have no incentive to do well, ergo they will only do what is required to avoid enough outcry to cut their funding. In a free market society, any business will do as little work as it can get away with and still turn the same profit. The same holds true for schools, which must do little to maintain their tax funding.
And if you look at my original post, I specifically used the word 'compete.' I never said that you had to send kids to public schools. I stated that public schools don't have to compete with anyone, which is 100% true. And if you still fail to grasp that concept, it's very indicative of the fact that you were taught by a government school with no incentive to do very well.
He *gets* your point. I think we *all* get your point. Vouchers have nothing to do with competiton. They have everything to do with trying to get the rest of us to pay for the parochial school education for your children.