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by natch 2084 days ago
That will just splinter society further into divisive religious and other ideological tribes who can’t understand each other or even get along. We have some of this now but vouchers make it worse and drain the budgets of public schools. The money has to come from somewhere and it ends up coming from taxpayers. So then less taxpayer money is available to do actual helpful things.
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Denmark ties education funds to each student, not the school district. They seem to be doing fine.
> Denmark ties education funds to each student, not the school district. They seem to be doing fine.

Lots of places don't, and are also doing fine.

That's because that particular feature is orthogonal to any real issue.

Or they have better governments.

When the problems in Detroit and LA subside maybe I would be with you on this point.

How does that work?
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