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To: Road Walker who wrote (8432)	6/7/2011 3:21:14 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

None of those are predominant Did you actually read the link? "This system covers nearly 90% of its students." "Most schools in Ireland are state-aided parish schools" (Different system, but still government paid private schools) "n the Netherlands, the "school struggle" (schoolstrijd) concluded in 1917 with public and private schools being given equal financial status under the constitution,[4] leading to a de facto system of school vouchers.[58] For more than 80 years, parents have preferred independent schools. Today, around 70% of primary and secondary pupils attend independent schools." Hong Kong has a predominant voucher system, just excluding for profit schools (which is a bit odd of Hong Kong historically, and doesn't make much sense to me, but which is a predominant voucher system) Sweden has a non-predominant system, but its still ten percent of students, rather than a very small percent like in the US Centralizing and socializing are not just the instincts of politicians, they are the instincts of humans. Only humans that are political players. I don't mean that politics changes them (although it can, and probably often does) but it is human instinct to try to control things if you have the power to do so. Its also human instinct to resist such control, but the ones with the power make the political decisions, so control frequently expands.