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yup, public schools should go. the reason is that the government has a vested interest in teaching its citizens what it wants them to hear . . . also because the government should not be in the business of supporting ideas. look at ward churchill . . . should taxpayers be forced to support what that nut has to say? obviously not. as for the charge that it would create disparities in opportunity among income classes . . . that's why charities exist. plus under competition there would be pressure on every school to keep tuition low, and the decreased taxes from the elimination of the already inflated and wasteful expenditures on education would help defray the cost for families. look at monopolized public education now, with its zoning laws and teachers' unions with their impossible regulations for firing members . . . essentially, telling a kid where he's going to go to school eliminates competition among schools and thereby discourages schools from being the best they can be, which is the major reason why public schools are so abysmal, at least in the us of a.
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