Comments on: Government schooling at its best

By: bile

bile — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:17:43 +0000

It was meant as a continuation of “Schooling does not fit well into a typical herachal business model.”

By: bosco

bosco — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:34:09 +0000

Wait, do you mean “They fail because…” or am I just missing the meaning of the “They don’t because…” in the first line of your response?

By: bile

bile — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:23:38 +0000

They don’t because they have competition from a unionized monopoly which uses the threat of violence to get funds in order to operate. Historically they did fine. They provided a service people wanted or failed just like every other business. Even church funded schools have to obey normal market forces. And even after all the bullshit they educate far more efficiently then government schools.

By: bosco

bosco — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:04:46 +0000

They still fail and die and the students get screwed. The majority of private schools are parochial and they receive funds from the church to continue to operate. They couldn’t exist otherwise. Many major private schools receive money from the state so they can break even. Schooling does not fit well into a typical hierarchal business model.

By: bile

bile — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:53:27 +0000

Uh yeah. That was the point of the comment. No private school can just steal more from the individuals in the society to continue their failed business strategy.

By: bosco

bosco — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:50:18 +0000

No privately run school could have ever gotten into this shape.

Ha! Privately run schools get themselves into terrible shape all the time. Only difference is they usually don’t have enough money to dig themselves in this deep and they typically go belly up shortly after.