Quality comments like this are what keep me coming back to HN.
I certainly agree. I’m not sure exactly how, but it’s clear there needs to be some sort of incentive for institutions to actually achieve their purpose, but as soon as a metric is measured, it gets exploited and over optimized.
The only incentive that works is letting such institutions crash and burn and be replaced. Even giant monopolies can end up losing money and going under.
The bare bones the market would create would depend on if people really want K-12 to be a glorified daycare or a useful tool for imparting knowledge. But having a financial incentive to function or go bust would mean you'd at least get better daycare services.
I would say yes. Most states schools provide excellent value, and I would even extend that to community colleges which provides even better value for their students.
to some sort of educator of last resort.
This might be a private school that specialized in this, or a public school that can not refuse them and is therefore full of bad students.
And how will they get to this educator of last resort? The per child transportation and tuition costs for this educator of last resort will far exceed the amount of the voucher.
I dont see how transportation would be any different. If they can take a school bus or public trasport to school A, they could take it to school B (last resort).
I don't see why the cost of an educator should be that much different at school A than B either. It might be even cheaper.
California spends 23k per K-12 student now. You should be able to pay someone 100k to guard 5 jail cells with self study students.
> I dont see how transportation would be any different. If they can take a school bus or public trasport to school A, they could take it to school B (last resort).
Because the school of last resort will have to be further away in order to consist only of misbehaving kids. You don't have to take my word for it. You can see for yourself that there are far fewer schools for troubled kids.
> I don't see why the cost of an educator should be that much different at school A than B either.
Because these educators will be dealing solely with misbehaving kids. You don't have to take my word for it. There are private schools that take these kids, and they charge more.
I certainly agree. I’m not sure exactly how, but it’s clear there needs to be some sort of incentive for institutions to actually achieve their purpose, but as soon as a metric is measured, it gets exploited and over optimized.