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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: TimF who wrote (3514)10/24/2000 1:39:20 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
I'm thinking that my children are more like Yosemite than customers of McD's If we have McD's running the schools then where is the impetus to maintain quality for 5 years beyond the current financial quarter? If we can have an industry built around marketing a product that kills people (tobacco), how can we keep that kind of business model out of the schools.

Here is a concrete example. McD's Educational Division finds that they can have access to the testing material by paying the right price. So to boost their scores for this quarter, they hire a bunch of aids to tutor the students to the test (they have nearly unlimited capital resources relative to government school), so they can "dump" cheap education for a few quarters to get market share. When the scores come in great for a few quarters they let the aids go and fill every square foot with kids coming to the school because of inflated test scores. Plus they serve McD's food in class at all hours.

Now, the following quarter test scores fall, but guess what, the competition is gone or is now so weak as to not present a financial danger to McD's. Further, all the kids that were attracted McD's schools (where they serve french fries and burgers in class) are not in a big hurry to go back to the old school with all the poor or unintelligent.

This kind of market regulation for something as important as schools and our future population is idiotic. Why not fire the military and replace them with mercenaries from Iraq, Asia or Africa? They'd probably work for a fraction of the price that our people would. This has been attempted before with poor success. Maybe it is just that the long-term functions of government should not be privatized.
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