Deregulate the School System
Here are some examples how overregulation leads to bad education:
Private or specialized schools are closed in the name of equity. Children get automatically assigned to schools. This eliminates competition - schools have no incentive to improve.
Simplify / deregulate funding: Funding is often super complex; cost for personnel, utilities, and infrastructure are paid by different entities (state for personnel, municipality for utilities, etc). Thus, schools can’t decide whether to allocate more funds into innovative technology, more teachers, or something else. This creates inefficiency and bureaucracy
Personnel allocation is too rigid. Teachers are in class only 35% of their total working hours. It’s possible to automate overhead like grading and many administrative tasks - but there is no incentive to do so because they aren’t allowed to reallocate time.
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Azure Breeze
Dec 15, 2024
The fact that some countries have no private schools yet have the best education is a straw man argument.
In order to explore all the possible school setups and systems we should deregulate and make schools compete for students. Government owned schools would need to do the same.
Milton Friedman mentions this in the form of the coupon system — whatever the government spends per student it can pay out to the family if they choose a private school. That way you spend your own money for your own good, and should pick the best option available.
Lavender Wolf
Dec 15, 2024
EU school systems are organised in massively different ways. Highly deregulated systems like US do not lead to learning gains. Finland is one of the best systems in EU and has almost no private schools for instance.
Lime Koala
Dec 15, 2024
In many countries (e.g., Germany, Spain, Sweden, Greece) home schooling is effectively illegal, which makes it harder for children to thrive when they are not well served by school systems