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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (10445)1/31/2006 7:13:02 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 541487
 
You might argue that k-12 public schools have monopoly control and that's tantamount to socialism.

No monopoly is required by or mandated for socialism in education. Socialists generally dislike fee-paying education [because almost by definition those with riches can afford the better education for their children]. But that's nothing to do with a monopoly or otherwise.

Of course, very few bodies besides the state can afford to provide education without direct payment. But some charities will, and some schools are generously funded or endowed by private benefactors even so. AFAIK it's only totalitarian or dictatorial countries that completely bar schools not under state control: and for them it's the control rather than the funding that's important.
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