I think the idea is that if it’s important to rich parents, they will grudgingly fund education for everyone. But as long as they have these outlets where they can just educate their own kids and leave everyone else behind, they will.
The Nordic countries have the best schools in the world.
Private schools are banned.
Well except for Sweden. They introduced vouchers in the 90s and as soon as they did, their rankings started rolling like dung down a hill.
One advantage of the private schools is they can kick out students they cannot manage easily, while the public schools have to keep everyone. Some recent strutural changes in the public shools are said to have declined their quality, enough so that many government ministers, even of the left wing, are sending their children to the private schools.
I guess it's one of those Nordic myths -- like high minimum wage (there is none in Denmark).
they did that before too :) couldnt possibly expect the politicians to send their kids to the same filthy schools as the plebs now could we? :)
it doesn't cost more for a teacher to open up an algebra book and teach from that instead of from the pre-algebra book. unless there are scheduling difficulties which somehow prevent one classroom's worth of students from being crammed into the same room in the same slot, the imagined lack of money isn't going to impact the contents of the curriculum.
this isn't like when we thought we needed to cram schools full of computers and they were going to cost money. one math class is an expensive as another to teach. we don't even need new textbooks. hell, we probably don't even need textbooks, just have them do exercises online or something.
On the contrary, I'm sure that a teacher who understands algebra well enough to teach it competently costs much more than the other kind, on account of being so rare.
Education is a collective action problem. Parents care more about their own child's education than the education of other children. This should not be surprising, and it cannot be changed.
What parents commenters are doing is laundering agency through a testing regime. It's part of the process of the absolution of responsibility of consequence.
As an aside, it's clear that parent commenters aren't mature enough to be approached socratically. I regret their schools taught them to read and write. They clearly don't want to learn.
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Teachers becoming disciplinarians is where they become authoritarian, exploitive arbiters of ones future earning potential.
Definitely. Let's start stack ranking[0] in kindergarten and expel (and make that stick nationwide!) the bottom 10% every year.[1]
By the time students get to high school, we'll have best schools in the world!
Those who have been expelled had already reached their intellectual peak, especially those in primary school. amirite? /s
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
[1] Please use this is a "clear indicator of intent to parody" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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