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To: TimF who wrote (587337)10/3/2010 9:38:42 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573857
 
"When it has been its mostly worked pretty well"

Link?

"1 - No I don't. If something wasn't done, that doesn't mean it wouldn't work if done"

Tim, it was the historical model until the US made the change. The developed countries abandoned it because the US model worked better. A lot of the third world never changed. Guess what?

So it has been done. It was a failure. Before you can convince anyone to go back to a failed model, you have to show examples of it working on a general population, not a selected one.

"I'm not quite sure if any of them have absolutely "no public schools", but a number of countries in Europe often pay for schooling (sometimes in religious schools, but not always) rather than directly providing public schools to everyone."

In Europe, it is almost always religious schools. In Europe, churches are part of the government, a model we have so far rejected. Even so, if there are any without any public schools I am unaware of them. You don't seem to know of any either. Instead of just speculating, why not try to find out? Granted, I know you prefer just to speculate based on no facts at all and insist that such speculations be treated as facts, but...