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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: privatization of education
Message-ID: <1973@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 6-Jul-86 06:36:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  6 06:36:42 1986
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In article <14736@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>It looks like I finally found a group Gwyn participates in.
>Now if I can just get him to talk about privatization of
>educational systems ... I finally found something we agree
>on but he hasn't responded to my pleas to discuss his ideas ...

I don't really have a lot of ideas on the subject:
	(1) The general idea is good.  Education is not a proper
	function of government (nor is much else of what it's
	currently involved in).
	(2) Very few public school systems provide the quality
	of education that is both desirable and possible.
	(3) There are quite a few private schools, mostly
	sponsored by religious organizations (alas), and the
	ones I'm familiar with do a fairly good job.
	(4) Many families cannot afford to send their kids to
	private schools, but if their public school tax were
	rebated then they would be much more likely to.  This
	idea is sometimes called "tax credits for education".
	(5) I can see some point to requiring licensing of
	private schools used as an alternative to public schools,
	for much the same reason as requiring a certain amount of
	schooling at all: merely to protect the interests of
	children of irresponsible parents.  However, this is a
	delicate matter, since we don't want the government
	regulating ideas.  Yet almost anything would be an
	improvement over the current situation.