[anarchotroll]

He says he dislikes a private system but, at the same time, indirectly acknowledges that what makes the system at his district work is the fact that it is partly private. It is partly private because people actually raise money voluntarily and charge outsiders in order to make it work.

[acjohnson55]

He does acknowledge that. The problem is not that empowering the community to pay for its education doesn't work; the problem is that different communities have vastly different resources to pull from, both financially and in terms of the soft assets that communities share, like social mobility, intellectual capital, etc. It's unfair because your average low-income school district can't pull off a bond issue or massive fundraiser to fund new initiatives.