I think this is a good idea but for an odd reason. Like a subtext of this battle over Harvard specifically is not that people are in need of education but that they are in need of prestigious credentials. This is really what this is about. In some sense, having more schools to compete against Harvard might reduce the prestige Harvard has but that may not be what people actually want. They may actually want a system where two or three schools have an admissions rate of 1% because the people who get in will want to entrench their power.
I don't know if it's actually good for the US to have a secondary education system that is so cutthroat. It's just very polarizing and gives too much power to a handful of schools.
I don't know if it's actually good for the US to have a secondary education system that is so cutthroat. It's just very polarizing and gives too much power to a handful of schools.