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Friday, May 11, 2012

Common Sense Capitalism: 'Free to Choose- What's Wrong With Our Schools?'


Source:Common Sense Capitalism- Professor Milton Friedman's Free To Choose series, talking about public education in America.

Source:The FreeState

“Free to Choose Part 6: What’s Wrong With Our Schools Featuring Milton Friedman”  


This film or at least Professor Milton Friedman’s narration of the film is about the lack of school choice in public schools in America, as well as promoting private school choice and charter schools.

I agree with Professor Friedman that one of the main problems with public education in America has to do with the lack of school choice and competition, especially for low-income students and parents. And because public education is mostly funded by local and state property taxes, kids in low-income communities are forced to go to underfunded and failing schools.

And as a result these students don’t get the education that they need to be successful in life be ready for college or a vocational school, even if they make it out of high school. Which a lot of low-income kids in America never even make it out of high school and just repeat the cycle of poverty that their parents also repeated. 

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