I think a voucher system would help here. Let the parents decide. Give them X dollars to spend where they like on the school and teachers of their choice and let the power of millions of people making small decisions go to work. Power to the people, baby ![/quote]
Exactly. Choice is good.
Unfortunately vouchers are a long shot primarily because tax payers have very little representation; in many states the vast majority of politicians represent public employee unions and not the tax payers.[/quote]
If parents feel so strongly about it, they can easily send their kids to private schools or they can homeschool. There is no need to subsidize private, for-profit schools with taxpayer money.[/quote]
Who said anything about private, for-profit schools?
Vouchers could pay for public schools, too. But the schools would have to be free to hire and fire teachers as needed to attract more parents to the school.
And, you conveniently ignored this question:
[quote=sdduuuude]Why couldn’t we allow the schools choose whether to hire union or non-union teachers ?
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You say that taxpayer money funding for-profit entities (private schools) would be bad. Well, unions are for-profit organizations and public money is funding them now.
