Trying to kill of private education seems kinda silly to me. What is our hypothetical parent still allowed to do? Can they hire a private tutor to teach their children off of school hours? Can they send them to low level college classes outside of school? Take a week off of work to teach their children themselves?
I mean, last time I checked, parents kinda should have a right to, you know, parent?
I feel like private schools being so heavily funded is in fact directly damaging to neighboring schools and the students in those schools, though. Since a) it means they can horde all the best teaching talent that might otherwise have been spread around more equally
That's a bit of a wonky problem to solve, though. I mean, government monopoly on the labor market for teachers? If we're looking at the high-speed, super-motivated individual who is considering being an educator, and who could make it as a highly-paid, highly effective private teacher, how much of a detriment is this going to have on them going into teaching in the first place?
You can say the solution is to raise the standard of education, and I kindof agree but... we can't afford to spend £33,000 per student per year (I presume there are schools in America which charge similar fees).
I'd exactly agree with that. Education's paid out of whatever tax it's normally paid out of (your jurisdiction determinate, I'm pretty sure it's property based in Fargo, at least), then let the parent do whatever the bloody hell they want with educating their kids. Killing upper class education isn't going to improve the lower class ones, it'll just make parents seek other ways for their children to get ahead (and, to be honest, I don't see why this is always a bedeviled human habit).
I dunno, it may be because I'm from Fargo, North Dakota, the nicest city in the world. But, I know for a fact that it was doable for very low class families to, with effort, send their children to the hated private school. Also, I can say from my own family's straight middle class experience, one can send someone to world-class primary education (namely my little sister, I'm publicly edumacated through and through)