re: Georgia follows Alabama- governor to sign landmark school choice legislation

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but 9/10 of them will be at or below bad public school level and run by individuals just trying to make a quick buck

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There’s a smidgen of truth here, but mostly you’re overstating the problem and you’re missing other benefits.

First of all, I think you don’t realize how abysmal most of these failing public schools are. It’s virtually impossible for 9/10 of the new private schools to be worse. In reality, the majority of the new charter schools in New Orleans are at least marginally better than the regular public schools they replaced, and half are significantly better.

Also, the really bad ones lose their license (charter) and another school company is brought in. That never happened with regular public schools.

Secondly, the new private/charter schools have “choice” as well. If a student is ungovernable and a danger to the other kids, they can actually get expelled.

As far as the Catholic schools and other religious and established private schools, many of them may open their own new schools, but managed by the established schools. They have been a huge improvement over the failing public schools.

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While all good private schools magically raise tuition by 6.5k due to inflation so they can keep the same level of exclusivity. New private schools will form, charging exactly $6.5k per student to take advantage of the situation, but 9/10 of them will be at or below bad public school level and run by individuals just trying to make a quick buck. School choice solves nothing and ignores the larger issues in education.

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