By the way, don't you believe teachers should have the right to collectively bargain? Should they not be allowed to negotiate their best pay package? Don't you trust free markets?
There isn't a free market in employers. Instead, we have a semi-monopoly government school system, so the consumer of services has little choice.
Unions gouging captive markets and ultimately creating a system with poor results for high cost is nothing to be proud of, and certainly has little to do with the "free markets" you are referencing. Until those unions can create a true out of business failure for their school system, so that other providers can win in the marketplace, there is little here that remotely resembles a free market.
A number of European systems have vouchers. Holland and Sweden come to mind. Public funding of education, with numerous private providers competing with the public system, creates a strong market force for superior education that our system desperately lacks.
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There isn't a free market in employers. Instead, we have a semi-monopoly government school system, so the consumer of services has little choice.
Unions gouging captive markets and ultimately creating a system with poor results for high cost is nothing to be proud of, and certainly has little to do with the "free markets" you are referencing. Until those unions can create a true out of business failure for their school system, so that other providers can win in the marketplace, there is little here that remotely resembles a free market.
A number of European systems have vouchers. Holland and Sweden come to mind. Public funding of education, with numerous private providers competing with the public system, creates a strong market force for superior education that our system desperately lacks.