[quote=goldfish]
The competition does exist in public school. You just vote with where you live. Are you suggesting to use a merit based system to decide who goes to which public elementary school? I don’t think it is a bad idea but it will not happen. [/quote]
So you’re basically saying that it’s OK to segregate kids by the parents’ social economic circumstances.

I’m suggesting give me a choice to determine which school I want to send my kid to. I paid tax into the system, so I should have a choice which school should get my money. If a private school can be sustained at $8-9k/yr per student and still have class size of 10:1, I expect the same level of public school since they’re spending 9-10k/yr per student.