Comments on: School Choice and Bread Lines In Delaware http://csinvestor.com/school-choice-and-bread-lines-in-delaware/ Simple Principles for Intelligent Investing Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: California Teacher Sells Advertising Space On Tests | Ad Savvy http://csinvestor.com/school-choice-and-bread-lines-in-delaware/comment-page-1/#comment-590 California Teacher Sells Advertising Space On Tests | Ad Savvy Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:25:49 +0000 http://csinvestor.com/?p=399#comment-590 [...] But interesting question here is, why is Tom Farber forced to do this to get the money he needs? Public schools are, on average, twice as expensive as private schools, and yet, public schools are having funding shortages, what’s going on? The answer is simple, public schools operate outside of the free market. So the natural pressures of the market that push businesses to increase quality while decreasing price aren’t there. If a school lacks quality, often times it gets increased funding, so the pool of funds gets sucked away by the inefficient parts. CSInvestor has a post about a similar issue. [...] [...] But interesting question here is, why is Tom Farber forced to do this to get the money he needs? Public schools are, on average, twice as expensive as private schools, and yet, public schools are having funding shortages, what’s going on? The answer is simple, public schools operate outside of the free market. So the natural pressures of the market that push businesses to increase quality while decreasing price aren’t there. If a school lacks quality, often times it gets increased funding, so the pool of funds gets sucked away by the inefficient parts. CSInvestor has a post about a similar issue. [...]

]]> By: Shaun Connell http://csinvestor.com/school-choice-and-bread-lines-in-delaware/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Shaun Connell Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:18:38 +0000 http://csinvestor.com/?p=399#comment-571 I couldn't agree more. I was "homeschooled." Personally, I find the "need" of our public schooling system to be absurd. Perhaps it's because I live in Arkansas, where the standard of education is simply surreal. Regardless, we know that literacy rates were actually higher before our modern state system. I'd suggest the book, "The Underground History of American Education." It's a great classic about the flaws of the entire foundation of our current system. Once again, great site. I enjoy it. I couldn’t agree more. I was “homeschooled.” Personally, I find the “need” of our public schooling system to be absurd. Perhaps it’s because I live in Arkansas, where the standard of education is simply surreal. Regardless, we know that literacy rates were actually higher before our modern state system.

I’d suggest the book, “The Underground History of American Education.” It’s a great classic about the flaws of the entire foundation of our current system.

Once again, great site. I enjoy it.

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