In the article by Friedman, he states that the only way to improve our current education system is through privatization. He believes that our schools need to be handed over to private individuals or enterprises and that in turn will force improvement of our school systems. I could not disagree more with this. He believes that using vouchers for school will lead to a large demand for private schools thus increasing the privatization process. How will this help our schools or our low income students that attend these schools? Even with vouchers, most low income students still could not afford to attend a private school. Friedman is also under the assumption that our schools are so horrible because of the teachers, etc. He never mentions all of the out of school factors that kids arrive at school with that disrupts their learning. He also thinks that there should not be any conditions attached to the vouchers. I just don't understand how that could work. If there are not any conditions, how will these private schools be assessed? Privately run schools will not have to have their records open to the public. How will this help our public schools? I just do not agree with privatizing public schools. I think we need to improve the education of our students in low performing schools through other methods.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Privatizing schools
After reading the article for last week's assignment, I decided to write about privatizing schools even though I have already blogged about school vouchers. In one article I read, privatization was defined as "the act of reducing the role of government or increasing the role of the the private sector in an activity or the ownership of assets". (http://www.aft.org/topics/privatization/index.htm) Is this really the direction we want our schools to go?
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