Comment by datashow | Hacker News Reader

Comment by datashow | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

> IMO, the best way to avoid issues like this would be to ban private schools, and make sure all schools have the same amount of funding per student.

Funny you forgot students still get different education resources from home.

When schools are equal, other factors become more significant. I think the next steps are:

- ban private tutoring

- ban zoning, not sure how this is going to work

- ban educational books from the market, so all educational books are equally distributed through public libraries

- wait, parents can still teach their kids. This is not fair. We also need to ban parents from teaching their kids. For an equal society, programmers should not be allowed to teach their kids programming.

- etc.

Banning private schools is an extreme position, but I see some sense in it. Here's how I think about it.

It tends to be the wealthier, better connected, more influential people who send their kids to private schools. So, we have a situation where the influential people don't have a lot to lose if public schools happen to be under-funded (their kids get private education). So it is more politically tolerable than it should be to under-fund public schools.

Until the rich/influential people find a school district in an area with extremely high housing costs, and give it a ton of money. Which ends up making a "public" school with a lot of the qualities of private schools that you seem to dislike.

Of course, the above already happens.

You missed a step:

- remove children from their families and put them in state-run facilities[0]

People who promote "equality by handicap" will be happy to go down the path you outline, if/when they don't see the results they expect from the previous step. I have yet to see a line they aren't willing to cross for "no, that infringes on individual freedom too much."

0. https://destroycapitalismnow.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/abolis... "The guarantee of protection of children will be taken away from the backwards bourgeois family and assigned to new, progressive social institutions."

Yes. Eventually this will be the only final solution.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com