Average cost per homeschooled student per year: about $900.00.
Average cost of brick and mortar "traditionally schooled" student: about $11,000.00 per year.
Not everybody can or should homeschool. Hell, not everybody should have kids, but they still do.
There has never been a time in the history of the world where informtion and education opportunities are so accessable.
So I know we can do better, much better than state, institutionalized "education."
Yes, you are correct it is more expensive, the reason is people were paid to build the school, teachers/staff are paid to work in the school, people are paid to provide food for the students, etc... depending on the size of the school there are hundreds of jobs created at every school all paid for with tax dollars. And as soon as those people get paid they go out and spend that money back into the economy. So by eliminating traditional state owned schools you would basically eliminate all these jobs.
But, what is the alternative, what are poor people who cannot afford school and who have parents that are unable to educate them via homeschooling supposed to do in the absence of the state model?
By eliminating the traditional state model of schooling you are basically excluding an entire socioeconomic group of people who would have no access to education because they would not be able to afford it, which is approximately 15 million American children today (who live in poverty).
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We dont need extortion (taxation) to provide education to the nation's or the worlds poor.
All of the jobs created by having state funded schools would not vanish, simply because state schools would be replaced by alterntives.
Private sector ventures have proven repeatedly that they will and do outperform state funded schools.
This has been demonstrated across the board even in countries where the average daily income is less than most (impoverished) americans are willing to spend on a cup of coffee.
Money spent on "education" in the US has risen steady for the last 50 years or so while performance has dropped steadily. Throwing $$ at teachers and institutions hasn't worked.
So I'm glad you asked what alternatives there may be for those who can't afford elite private schools.
Rememeber that in US public schools were created to mold generations of factory workers and a homogeneous citizenry around the time of the industrial revolution.
Give the audio a quick listen.
Also check out the work of John Taylor Gatto on this subject.
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Unfortunately most of the jobs would vanish, sure some would move to the private sector but most likely for less pay, simply because all the money that pays the salaries of the people who work at state schools comes from tax money. If that tax money is no longer collected the money to pay all those salaries has to come from another source.
In a private school that money has to come from students/parents who pay to attend the school. A private school can only exist if it is earning revenue and profits, and it can only earn when it has paying customers. If it is not earning enough it has to hire fewer people and lower wages.
In a state owned school you dont have this problem, they dont care about revenue/profits all they care about is teaching kids. They get their tax dollars they pay their staff with those tax dollars, their staff pays part of that money right back to the government in income tax and the other part gets spent into the economy by the Americans who work at these schools.
What you and your video are describing here are basically socioeconomic segregation where you would have private schools for the rich, middle class, the poor and of course some would not be able to attend any type of school because of poverty (to some extent this is already happening in the USA but would get much worse if there were no tax funded schools at all).
Sure I don't agree with some things that are taught in public/private schools nor how they are taught, but at least today every child in the USA can attend a public school and get some sort of education no matter what level of the economic ladder they are on. This would not be possible in an only for profit private system where schools could choose what children they want and dont want to accept. If you dont like how the public school system works the answer is not to shut it down but change it, run for office and change the system, thats how democracy works.
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We currently have economic segregation. Do you think that kids in inner city poor neighborhoods honestly have the same level of school quality that upper middle income or affluent neighborhoods do? The impoverished do NOT have the option to simply moved to a better neighborhood. Public sector schools have failed miserably in creating any actual options.
They are drone factories and little more. You may have a few good instructors who go against the norm but it is an uphill battle for actual teachers to do their jobs.
All that occurs when taxes are collected is that you add a middle man. This adds no tangible benefit. unless you believe compulsion is a good thing.
When exchanges are voluntary instead of compulsory value is determined by what people are willing to pay for a service instead of being compelled to pay for services they don't use or they disagree with.
I will not be running for any office any time soon. You are far better off to vacate a system that you disagree with and creating something that isso good nobody wants the current system, rather than joining the corrupt system and trying to change it from the inside. Most agencies are run by unelected bureaucrats who are accountable to nobody. As of elected officials are. This is by design. Elected officials can get into a circular finger pointing match where everyone is just doing their job, and nobody is to blame.
Enjoy beating your head against the concrete wall of voting for any meaningful "change, it's not going to happen.
Running on that hamster wheel faster isn't going to get you off of it you've got to jump off.
Try voluntaryism and agorism
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Yes I agree, we already have economic segregation, I wrote that in my response. Eliminating tax funded schools will make things worse, there will be millions of Americans who will not be able to afford any kind of schooling. It does not matter what type of private schools are created, all private schools require revenue/profit to function. The reason public schools are failing is because they are underfunded, if we took a fraction of the money the DoD gets and put it into education instead the US public education system would work much better. Just like private schools with more money are better, look at Harvard for example, the reason they are one of the most prestigious schools in the US is because they have a $35 billion endowment!
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You do relize that for the last 50 years money has poured ino public "education" at a steadily increased rate while, proficiency and literacy has steadily dropped don't you?
The DOD is money pit making the DOE a money pit doesn't fix the problem. You literally believe that if government didn't fund schools there would be a vacum that no person or organization would be willing to fill?
Americans are extremely benevolent. Private giving exceeds government funded foreign aid.
When people shreik about a government program being cut such as endowments for the arts they sweat a few hundred thousands of dollars per year for the endowments while totally ignoring that the private sector benefactors pours money into art in the billions.
We can do way better, and spending more money on the current model that is 100 years old and dates back to pre ww1 Germany isnt going to make it any better.
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The reason public schools are failing is because they are not getting enough money, because it is being wasted on other things like the DoD. The same way private schools fail when they don't have enough money so do public schools. There are currently about 80 million Americans enrolled in public schools in this country what would happen to them if the public school system would shut down?
I said no such thing nor do I believe it, there are plenty of private schools in this country already and anyone who wishes to can attend one if they are allowed by the private school, and I have no problem with that I support democracy and freedom of choice.
The problem is converting to a privatized education system is not better by any means, it will simply create a nation of rich and poor. Sure changes should be made to improve the system but that requires competent people to run our government. Unfortunately the government is being taken over by corporatists who want to privatize everything because it will mean more profits for them. It is not a coincidence Betsy DeVos is the Sec of Education, she bought her way into the position so she can destroy the public school system so her and her family/friends can continue making money from their private schools.
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•"The reason public schools are failing is because they are not getting enough money, "
There is no imperical evidence for this whatsoever.
Multiple studies have shown despite tripling federal spending on education over the last 30 years SAT scores and aptitude have either remained unchanged or declined.
Public schools have had 100 years in the US to prove their superiority. Time to move on.
It's 2017, not 1917.
Never in the history of the world has there been a time where there has been greater ease of access to knowledge.
Most people have a computer in their pocket that they chose to use for social media and selfies instead of signing up for free courses via Kahn acadmey or MIT ONLINE.
I'm not buying what you're selling...
I have no expaction to convince you of your fallacious thinking on this subject
Yet we do seem to agree the DOD spends entirely too much money on terrible things.
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