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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Your comment is flawed for a few reasons. Most importantly, the public school education is not simply a product of the teachers efforts but operates in a broader context.
[Very good reasons to send kids to private schools]
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I don't disagree that a teacher send his/her kid to private school is a rational choice in many cases. Nor, as I mentioned, do I think that it's a problem that can be solved by some sort of intervention. The only way to get more teachers to send their kids to public schools is to make the schools better.*
You nail the problem on the head: the issue is that the kid's education is dependant on so much more than the individual teacher's efforts. It depends on the administration, the community, the good people making curriculum decisions for the Great State of Texas, and perhaps most importantly, other teachers, whom a teacher can observe every day, and whom a teacher knows suck.
Nonetheless, a GM line worker isn't responsible for but a small piece of the car he buys either (if even that). I
know from anecdotal data that this same impulse keeps some teachers' kids in public schools where they would otherwise go to private. Which is good, because on average teachers' kids are good for schools.
*The in no way involves charter schools or vouchers, both of which may improve the education of certain kids, but which will certainly harm the kids whose parents don't or can't advocate for them. I pose the hypothetical: does anyone on the board think that vouchers and charter schools will
increase the number of teacher's kids going to public, non-charter schools? NFW.
