It ignores the lack of access to healthy groceries among the urban poor, which is directly due to the "free market." Real grocery stores don't consider it profitable or desirable to open in such areas, so many people are consigned to unhealthy convenience store fare, which leads to nutritional deficiencies, obesity, etc.
Market forces have no built-in consideration of fairness, so if they're allowed to control necessary goods and services, disadvantaged people get screwed. That's inevitable.
Also, it ignores the fact that ~70% of private schools are religious in nature, something which supposed "school choice" advocates definitely have firmly in mind.
Market forces have no built-in consideration of fairness, so if they're allowed to control necessary goods and services, disadvantaged people get screwed. That's inevitable.
Also, it ignores the fact that ~70% of private schools are religious in nature, something which supposed "school choice" advocates definitely have firmly in mind.
If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools -
- 06/05/2011 05:05:33 AM
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- 06/05/2011 05:05:33 AM
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the obvious solution is to just do away with public education in general
- 06/05/2011 06:41:58 AM
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- 06/05/2011 06:41:58 AM
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If groceries were like education... the analogy would be apt. But they aren't, and it isn't.
- 06/05/2011 09:40:37 AM
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- 06/05/2011 01:41:10 PM
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I don't see your point there. The eating of groceries also goes on for many years – all one's life. *NM*
- 06/05/2011 01:42:38 PM
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Yes, but the effects of not having any are seen within days
- 06/05/2011 05:29:16 PM
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I see. Yes, that's another reason why it's easy to sit back and do nothing until it's too late.
- 06/05/2011 06:40:03 PM
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Very narrow-minded - the point is, private is better than public.....
- 06/05/2011 02:47:39 PM
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so the rest of should be forced to send our kids to bad schools to keep a level playing field? *NM*
- 06/05/2011 05:24:23 PM
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I have said nothing of the sort, and never would.
- 06/05/2011 06:31:48 PM
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That is exactly what you said.....and my other reply to you proves.....
- 06/05/2011 10:05:40 PM
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Fair enough on the second point (almost) – correction duly edited in.
- 06/05/2011 10:16:39 PM
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That's a rather big non-sequitur there, don't you think?
- 06/05/2011 06:36:51 PM
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If the state doesn't pay for schools, what happens to children whose parents have no money?
- 06/05/2011 10:25:48 PM
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Other ways this analogy fails:
- 07/05/2011 12:37:36 AM
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More relevantly, what would schools be like if they were run like supermarkets? *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:27:49 PM
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Bad schools would close, good ones would get more students - sounds fine to me! *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:49:30 PM
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spoken like someone who has no idea what it takes to run a "good school" *NM*
- 06/05/2011 04:17:12 PM
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Then you have half as many schools. So not much scope for choice any more.
- 06/05/2011 06:44:26 PM
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most of your arguements are against public education being financed by property taxes *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:33:41 PM
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And the forced attendence by where you live instead of giving parents a choice. *NM*
- 06/05/2011 02:50:23 PM
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Look, I just want a store that carries Crunch n Munch with Almonds.
- 06/05/2011 09:05:23 PM
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Well if the socialists have their way you won't get Crunch n Munch at all
- 06/05/2011 11:05:55 PM
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