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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Free enterprise in the educational marketplace can be very threatening to those with monopoly stakes.  Throughout American history many have heard similar comments as the PP (this is a good and positive sign).   The decline of the American public education school system and the slow rise of competing and disruptive alternatives my be just the prescription needed for a swift kick in the butt or slow obsolescence.[/quote]

If you look at the history of education, the public school system wasn't really founded to ensure that students get excellent education.  The literacy rate at the time the public school system was founded was already high in America, at least among whites.  It was considered important that people be literate so they could read the Bible.  The school system was founded to ensure that American students learned American history and how to be part of the American community.  It was founded so that adults could work and their children would have a place to learn, rather than everyone having to homeschool or using small private schools.  It was founded based on "universal access" (back then meaning whites) to ensure that even those who weren't wealthy would have a place for their children to go and learn so that they could work.  It was not founded to provide outstanding education.  In some areas it does, but that wasn't the promise the school system made to you.[/quote]

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