Difference between revisions of "Education"
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| − | {{DES | des = Libertarians strongly oppose public education: they wish to eliminate tax-funding for education, regulation of education, and make education independent of government. | show=}} | + | {{DES | des = Libertarians strongly oppose public education: they wish to eliminate tax-funding for education, regulation of education, and make education independent of government. Libertarians favor privatization and corporatization of schooling. | show=}} |
Education is one of the great failures of libertarianism. Unlike liberalism, libertarianism has no justification for goals such as universal education or equal opportunities in education. Education has enormous market failures that would prevent an economically optimum production and distribution of education. And the libertarian anti-government fixation dooms most of their proposals to failure while failing to explain the obvious government successes in education. | Education is one of the great failures of libertarianism. Unlike liberalism, libertarianism has no justification for goals such as universal education or equal opportunities in education. Education has enormous market failures that would prevent an economically optimum production and distribution of education. And the libertarian anti-government fixation dooms most of their proposals to failure while failing to explain the obvious government successes in education. | ||
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Libertarian endorsement of [[vouchers]] is a stopgap solution on the way to total privatization, according to the [[Libertarian Party]]. | Libertarian endorsement of [[vouchers]] is a stopgap solution on the way to total privatization, according to the [[Libertarian Party]]. | ||
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| + | [[Plutocracy|Plutocratic]], corporate, and conservative interests want to subvert public schooling to educate students according to their own agendas, break power of local government that they don't control, and break teacher unions. That's the reason for the big push behind [[Charter Schools]] and for-profit education companies. Despite ludicrous promises of better performance, charter schools seldom match public school performance, and for-profit education companies go bankrupt after conspicuous failure. | ||
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| + | Private, for-profit education companies have a long history of being rip-offs, especially when government funds pay for students. [[Virtual Charter Schools]] are the latest [[ALEC]]-sponsored attempt at undermining public schools through corporatization of education. They target communities of color or poverty which are dispossessed and disempowered. | ||
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