Quote Originally Posted by DoomedOne View Post
My only point was that the free market is not a universal law to follow in this country. And I agree money is an incentive to put out the best product but standardized tests do not rate the best schools. All schools need to be public, it's the teachers, not the schools, that should be competing to be the best. Private schools widen the gap between the rich and the poor, which is an indicator of a society in decline.
Private schools widen the gap between the rich and poor only because they excell the rich. I want the poor to excell too. The success of our private schools is proof that financial competition makes schools work better than they do without it.