[Vision2020] MSD financial condition

[Donovan Arnold]

Dale,

If you think Moscow schools are so horrible, then why don't you create a 
private school and show us all how it is done right. If our schools are so 
bad at operating, then it should be a snap for you!

Donovan Arnold


>From: "Dale Courtney" <dale@courtneys.us>
>To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] MSD financial condition
>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:18:34 -0800
>
>Hey, Carl!
>
> > If there were a quality
> > secular private school in town, it may well interest me.  To
> > my knowledge,
> > there is not.  Hence, circumstances would require me to
> > enroll my children
> > in the public school system and support it at the voting
> > booth.  I assume
> > there are parents in our town who are faced with such a
> > decision.
>
>This has kind of been the reason driving the charter school movement -- to
>get out from under all the problems in the regular schools.
>
>However, if we were to have a Separation of School and State (as
>libertarians propose), you would have the ability to send your virtual
>children to whatever "flavor" of school you'd want; and, since there would
>be competition among schools, it would give you the best school for the
>money.
>
>For a discussion on competition in education, see:
>http://www.uidaho.edu/~jwenders/Essays%20In%20Persuasion/4/I-Why_IEA_Afraid_
>._10_3_94(MSW).htm
>
>For instance, there are at least 5 private Christian educational
>institutions that I personally know of in Moscow. These all compete with
>each other for the quality of output vs. cost. Since no monopoly exists, 
>all
>5 continue to work to offer the best in educational opportunities for the
>children and the parents at the lowest cost. This is good for everyone
>involved, and it lowers the costs across the board.
>
>Government schools do not have any competition, so they have no incentive 
>to
>reduce costs. In fact, they only have an incentive to bloat. This is the
>classical symptoms of a government-sponsored monopoly. For a good article 
>on
>government school monopolies and the detrimental effect it has on education
>overall, see
>http://www.uidaho.edu/~jwenders/Essays%20In%20Persuasion/4/C-School_Choice%5
>B1%5D._6_5_91(MSW).htm
>
>It is always of interest to me that liberals typically scream about the
>wickedness of monopolies; yet they are the first to defend the chief and
>most expensive offender of all that monopolistic evils entail...
>
>Best,
>Dale
>
>
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