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I went to a 'magnet school' - it did nothing to help the bottom end of the socioeconomic spectrum keep up with test scores etc. It just removed the top tier of students from classes. Incidently, this was the greatest positive for these students - 'bottom-up' education has never been proven to work, and they benefitted greatly with no significant gain for others. Regardless - public schools are being faced with a harsh reality: they are borderline anachronistic.
There's not enough money to go around, and very little draw for new or experienced teachers. What little money there is gets watered down by new, difficult realities for public schools, things like increasing sex ed and higher incidences of violence.
Why not subject schools to the 'marketplace'? Give every person the same amount of cash as you'd give the schools, and force the schools to privatize. If the schools can't survive, they can work for more money or improve to gather more students.
Does this really help rich families that much more than the current system? The current system is hugely slanted toward the wealthy - how could it get much worse?
Why pour money down the crapper? We have models of schools that work - what if these are private? How now?
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