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Originally posted by Ustwo
Not everything is solved by more money. Per student private schools don't cost more yet do better. Do you 'reward' a school with more money when they do poorly? When two equally funded schools have vastly divergent test scores who should get more funds? Do you motivate people by rewarding their failure (the teachers, and administrators?). The system is set up to fail.
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1. Everything can be solved with more money, the question is always how much more and how quickly. If we cut the entire US defense budget and put it all into AIDS/HIV research, we would have a vaccine/cure in short order in much the same way, we would have the best schools in the world if we took a quarter of the same defense budget and gave it to schools.
2. It seems like you are advocating a total voucher, in essence children will apply to the best schools because money will not be an issue. This application process will create ultra-elite schools, akin to MIT or Yale, which will be detrimental to the learning of people who go to those schools. These schools will also attract the best teachers and the system of tracking, with its well proven problems, will be magnified by several orders.