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What's the most convincing short argument for why education vouchers and a free market is better than public schools?
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Public schools are risk-averse, and so little innovation happens. Over the long term, it means educational outcomes are much worse than they could be with decades of entrepreneurs applying their talents to the problem.
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Public school teaches an orthodoxy, including the fashionable ideas of the day. A free market would inculcate many different worldviews in its pupils. This heterodoxy is healthier for our democracy and causes more innovation.
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Because you can't waste a resource you never owned in the first place, and uneducated people do not deserve to reasonably allocate their resources such as education opportunities.
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Education-focused families today must contend with property taxes and local interest groups to get educational outcomes funded. Cutting out school district middlemen and non-schooling taxpayers aligns incentives for students and teachers.
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@JamesGrugett When resolve?

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@SirCryptomind Done! Thanks for the ping.

My vote is for 'public school being risk averse'

  1. Competition drives excellence

  2. Public schools are stale due to bureaucratic hurdles

  3. Schools are held more accountable in a free-market education system.

  4. Free-market education attracts entrepreneur talent that brings innovation and transformative advancements that address unique challenges usually faced in Public schools.

  5. Free-market education allows Parents the ability to align with children's individual learning styles, needs and interests.

  6. Free-market education brings more demand with better performance by efficiently planning resource allocation.


Experience: Being a parent of 5 children(2 With Autism). The 2 with Autism go to private schools that the state pays for that we chose. While it is not true 'voucher' system, it was the entry into seeing what it would be like if we had a system available for all 5 children.

My vote definitely goes towards public school being risk averse and having very little incentive to innovate.

Across most forms government action it is much more rewarding for each public servant to make a risk averse decision, than it is to try new things that may help the average tax payer much more than the risk averse decision, but could lead to them causing harm.

To name a few examples, I believe you see this play out with the FDA refusing to allow human challenge trials for the covid vaccine early on, the NRC making nuclear economically infeasible, and schools trending towards highly standardized teaching/testing methods/tools.