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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elected representatives are what got us into the current situation. The current situation doesn't work for everyone.  Competition is particularly good at encouraging new approaches and wringing out efficiencies and providing good benchmarks of best practices.  Why not allow charter schools?  If they fail - fine.  If they succeed, great.  The public schools can learn and become better.
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Competition sounds nice, but it doesn't really work well for schools.  Ranking success of schools by test scores can lead to adverse effects like schools that try to attract more higher scoring students and weed out lower scoring students.  The school then looks like it's succeeding, but really it's just shuffling the deck and not really improving the system.

Also, it's different than, for example, a restaurant.  Private entities open a restaurant and profit if they succeed or lose money if they fail.  If a school fails, you've lost years of education for a whole group of kids.  The only people that really benefit from "competition" and "free market" with schools are the big money groups that make a bunch of profit off these charters, whether they succeed or fail.[/quote]

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