Who provide better education-the free market or the government? Why do you feel so. 10 points for best A.?

A combination of the two as we have now.

If you go with complete free market education with zero government regulation, you end up with the impoverished towns / areas having a terribly low educational system.

If you go with a completely socialized system where ppl can't opt to put their children in private schools, you end up with social turmoil. There will always be the ppl that want their children in specific schools. IE) religious schools, etc... schools that a socialized system could not offer due to the Constitution.

I think if there was a guaranty of access (which DOES require the government) the free market would. The one place that isn't necessarily true is in the 'hard to serve' sectors at the very top and bottom of the academic curve. Few private institutions have enough of these individuals to make up full classes with targetted instruction.

However, if that were accounted for, I think the free market is MUCH more accountable to its customers than the public education system is to the needs of its students.

I'll go one further and say that education aimed at the 'norm' even would be better than what we have now in many areas.

It depends.

If you force the free market to accept ANY student that shows up at the door, then I think government and free market basically will compete equally. One reason free market private schools do better is that they do not have to accept everyone, skim off the top, and expel students.

Therefore, any comparison is not valid unless both sets are working under the same conditions.

There's no need to question what is well known.

Private and parochial schools (and now home-schooling) are miles AHEAD of public education.

Private schools have the POWER to expell kids who are a negative influence or FAIL to do the work. Public schools are required BY LAW to "offer" an education to any kid up to his 16th birthday..... which means it's near impossible to expell a dip$hit from the classroom.... all kids suffer when he's in there.

Private schools also attract INDEPENDENT teachers, the ones who WANT to teach and are usually pretty good at it. Public schools deal with UNIONIZED teachers who CAN'T be fired, no matter how pathetic they are.

Translation.... the VAST MAJORITY of public schools are like a zoo.

The government tends to mess everything up it has a hand in. Private education does not lower the bar in order to meet gov regulations.