this shit makes me really angry. we put up with government because it ostensibly takes care of basic services like roads, clean water, etc. I hate the state not just for its habitual tyrannies but at least as much for its fucking incompetence at its most basic jobs https://twitter.com/KMPHFOX26/status/1135748107642187776 …
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann
Taxpayers now spend ~$13k/year per K-12 public school student — into a system we're consistently told is "underfunded." Yet if parents could choose between public schooling or $13k per kid toward the school of their choice, the entire institution would disappear. Bonkers.
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Replying to @webdevMason @sonyaellenmann
Ostensibly, there are those who make far less than $13k who are able to send their children to public schools.
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Replying to @tszzl @sonyaellenmann
The children of people who make far less than $13k would be especially likely to benefit from more school options.
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Replying to @webdevMason @sonyaellenmann
It seems to me that if the govt can fix a funding$ amt per child, then there is no incentive for a private school to run cost efficiently. You see all kinds of bloat and inefficiency in govt contractors in other areas. Would we truly get better service?
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Replying to @tszzl @webdevMason
Do it like this. Just as a dummy number, parents can allocate $13k per year per kid for education. They can pay more privately if they want to, or they can choose a lower-cost school. In the latter case, savings go to a savings vehicle in the kid's name, redeemable at 18 or w/e
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Just an example. Lots of possibilities for tweaking the incentives. In my hypothetical, schools have to compete, but the principal-agent problem between parent and child is reduced
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In a competitive market w/ government vouchers, risk of bloat moves to risk of fraud. I don't think it's possible to eliminate either, but I see the private fraud problem as more tractable than public bloat. The extent of the rent-seeking in the current system is totally opaque.
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Replying to @webdevMason @sonyaellenmann
I’m skeptical of the charter school model after seeing the abysmal results and massive corruption in India. They perform worse than public schools by all measures. That being said, our institutional health is quite a bit better and more choice is always good
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