You're completely wrong about that. Prior to the era of mass public schooling brought about by Progressives, most people in America learned to read from the Bible with no formal schooling at all.
That being said, in a dedicated effort to improve the lives of former slaves, black literacy went from 0% to 50% in a few decades due entirely to private schooling. A specific kind of private schooling involving extremely small class room sizes, a heavy focus on reading classics, writing by learning grammatical structure, and a strong focus on mathematics. All Historical Black Colleges were privately funded, and existed specifically to offer a kind of 'secondary education' to blacks who were much older, but weren't familiar with more than basic arithmetic and a rudimentary understanding of reading.
Public schooling is already prohibitively expensive and is driving up the costs of schooling generally, same with Universities. If public schooling had to compete with private schooling, public schooling would go bankrupt for being less effective and more expensive. It only survives because it is subsidized by your taxes. This means that the only place where private schooling can ever compete is in a luxury market.
If, for example, the government created a mandatory food program which used taxes to feed the poor, "private food companies" would only exist as upscale restaurants. You would then turn around and tell me that "without public food control, the poor would starve". You'd never believe that private cheap food would be possible, and you couldn't imagine that McDonalds would exist.
The same goes, not only for education, but all markets. If you end public schooling, the demand for private schooling would go up, and because private schools would finally be able to compete in a market where the government didn't subsidize competition out of the marketpalce, you would not only see private education take up the slack, but be significantly cheaper.
Perhaps you have a point, but I'm thinking of a poor, irresponsible single mother of four who wouldn't pay for schooling for her kids. The kids don't deserve to have no options. The answer can't be "fuck them."
If you're already doing that, you're already either keeping your kids out of school to get you welfare money, or they are going to a ghetto school where they are going to be recruited into a gang, which you don't give a shit about either, and you're probably hoping they get shot by a cop so you can get a payday.
I'm saying: those kids are already fucked, and they'd be better off working a job, rather than going to a public school.
They can have a basic education through private mechanisms including tutors. Kids don't need to be in a government sponsored indoctrination center being taught anything but math and literacy, for 8 hours a day, for 12 years.
Poor and impoverished kids would do just fine with half that time, actually reading.
Fuck, I can tell you most of my literacy comes from reading Calvin and Hobbes at dinner.
You're completely wrong about that. Prior to the era of mass public schooling brought about by Progressives, most people in America learned to read from the Bible with no formal schooling at all.
That being said, in a dedicated effort to improve the lives of former slaves, black literacy went from 0% to 50% in a few decades due entirely to private schooling. A specific kind of private schooling involving extremely small class room sizes, a heavy focus on reading classics, writing by learning grammatical structure, and a strong focus on mathematics. All Historical Black Colleges were privately funded, and existed specifically to offer a kind of 'secondary education' to blacks who were much older, but weren't familiar with more than basic arithmetic and a rudimentary understanding of reading.
Public schooling is already prohibitively expensive and is driving up the costs of schooling generally, same with Universities. If public schooling had to compete with private schooling, public schooling would go bankrupt for being less effective and more expensive. It only survives because it is subsidized by your taxes. This means that the only place where private schooling can ever compete is in a luxury market.
If, for example, the government created a mandatory food program which used taxes to feed the poor, "private food companies" would only exist as upscale restaurants. You would then turn around and tell me that "without public food control, the poor would starve". You'd never believe that private cheap food would be possible, and you couldn't imagine that McDonalds would exist.
The same goes, not only for education, but all markets. If you end public schooling, the demand for private schooling would go up, and because private schools would finally be able to compete in a market where the government didn't subsidize competition out of the marketpalce, you would not only see private education take up the slack, but be significantly cheaper.
Perhaps you have a point, but I'm thinking of a poor, irresponsible single mother of four who wouldn't pay for schooling for her kids. The kids don't deserve to have no options. The answer can't be "fuck them."
If you're already doing that, you're already either keeping your kids out of school to get you welfare money, or they are going to a ghetto school where they are going to be recruited into a gang, which you don't give a shit about either, and you're probably hoping they get shot by a cop so you can get a payday.
I'm saying: those kids are already fucked, and they'd be better off working a job, rather than going to a public school.
It's too callous. They deserve to have basic education.
They can have a basic education through private mechanisms including tutors. Kids don't need to be in a government sponsored indoctrination center being taught anything but math and literacy, for 8 hours a day, for 12 years.
Poor and impoverished kids would do just fine with half that time, actually reading.
Fuck, I can tell you most of my literacy comes from reading Calvin and Hobbes at dinner.