[Frost1x]

Shopping privatized policy through your wallet/feet just doesn't work. It requires critical mass from consumers and the largest portion of consumers will not, or perhaps are in situations where they cannot, resist with their feet/wallet.

I'll take more powerful democratic government over more powerful unchecked privatized (authoriatian) power any day of the week. I'd be happy if both had less concentrated power and citizens had significantly more power.

The way to give citizens power is through law that is clearly and explicitly designed to empower average citizens against both government and private wealth. We have a fair amount of such protection built into our governmental system that does just this for citizens with respect to government (after all, this sort of authoriatian tyranny is one of the reasons we have the US now). We have significantly less clear and explicit law that protects citizens (consumers) from concentrated private wealth (businesses), giving private wealth a massive grey zone of unscrupulous space to play around in.

[psychiatrist24]

This is not an issue of concentrated private wealth. Most schools are run by governments.

You are right, citizens need to be empowered against their governments. But regulations give governments more power, not less.

And if you say the majority of consumers doesn't care about some issue, what makes you think democracy could provide a solution?

You also don't need that many feet to create an alternative school. You just need enough children to justify an extra building and teachers, or supplement the home schooling.