I agree with funding students not systems. However. I have been struggling the last few years with understanding why the semi free market university system is rotting with indoctrination and falling standards of education quality. There are a ton of options, but all are crap. Why havent high quality institutions that are not full of woke…
I agree with funding students not systems. However. I have been struggling the last few years with understanding why the semi free market university system is rotting with indoctrination and falling standards of education quality. There are a ton of options, but all are crap. Why havent high quality institutions that are not full of woke crap come into existence? Is there really no market for a decent school? So, will it be any different for k-12 school choice? If so, why?
because it is entirely and utterly captured by federal money, tax breaks, and regulation.
it's not remotely free. title 9 alone has ravaged them.
this is why the key to vouchers is to make them grants. here's the money, spend it on whatever you deem to be education. no limits, no accreditation, no "lists of approved schools and curricula" etc
once you start down that route, you land in total capture.
sure, some people will do some dumb stuff. that's the price of freedom (and it's a helluva lot lower than the price of having the government decide what schools are OK)
Accreditation is a hoop that private schools (also colleges and universities) have to jump through every couple of years. The theory is that they make sure that the curriculum is in step with other similar schools. In practice they look to be sure that your standards for indoctrination are up to snuff. You are absolutely right – unless it is totally divorced from government and even professional standards bodies it will not work.
One of the delights of our "backward" Ukraine is that the private school my son attended had absolutely no oversight. The teachers use the standard public school textbooks, which are not rife with indoctrination. I use them to teach my son at home. The major problem here, as everywhere, was that teachers have to handle students of varying levels of ability. The upside here is that there are no minorities to take offense.
The university has been awash money in loans to students that are guaranteed to have to pay them back, even with social security money when they retire if it comes to that.
This has causes a growth in administrations and treating universities like a business to see who can get the most of this loan money... The incentives of the market have changed to creating mega institutions with useless departments to get the most admissions from every conceivable student type.
But why haven’t a few schools tried to woo students and federal $$$s by offering a quality education? Or tried to get the conservatives through a less woke atmosphere?
I agree with funding students not systems. However. I have been struggling the last few years with understanding why the semi free market university system is rotting with indoctrination and falling standards of education quality. There are a ton of options, but all are crap. Why havent high quality institutions that are not full of woke crap come into existence? Is there really no market for a decent school? So, will it be any different for k-12 school choice? If so, why?
because it is entirely and utterly captured by federal money, tax breaks, and regulation.
it's not remotely free. title 9 alone has ravaged them.
this is why the key to vouchers is to make them grants. here's the money, spend it on whatever you deem to be education. no limits, no accreditation, no "lists of approved schools and curricula" etc
once you start down that route, you land in total capture.
sure, some people will do some dumb stuff. that's the price of freedom (and it's a helluva lot lower than the price of having the government decide what schools are OK)
Accreditation is a hoop that private schools (also colleges and universities) have to jump through every couple of years. The theory is that they make sure that the curriculum is in step with other similar schools. In practice they look to be sure that your standards for indoctrination are up to snuff. You are absolutely right – unless it is totally divorced from government and even professional standards bodies it will not work.
One of the delights of our "backward" Ukraine is that the private school my son attended had absolutely no oversight. The teachers use the standard public school textbooks, which are not rife with indoctrination. I use them to teach my son at home. The major problem here, as everywhere, was that teachers have to handle students of varying levels of ability. The upside here is that there are no minorities to take offense.
The university has been awash money in loans to students that are guaranteed to have to pay them back, even with social security money when they retire if it comes to that.
This has causes a growth in administrations and treating universities like a business to see who can get the most of this loan money... The incentives of the market have changed to creating mega institutions with useless departments to get the most admissions from every conceivable student type.
But why haven’t a few schools tried to woo students and federal $$$s by offering a quality education? Or tried to get the conservatives through a less woke atmosphere?