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PartyPorpoise t1_is8zakt wrote

Reply to comment by ChubbyProlapse in Accepted (2021) - A school in Louisiana is celebrated for putting traditionally underserved students into Ivy League colleges, but an investigation uncovers its charismatic founder's controversial methods (CC) [01:22:56] by thesecondfire

I feel so bad for those kids. They want to do well, and their parents want them to do well. But most of them aren’t in educated households and aren’t going to realize that they aren’t getting a real education until it’s too late. Really taking advantage of desperate people.

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foxxie31 t1_is9bqry wrote

Almost like there is some demand for regulations? Coming from northern Europe this shit makes me just pray we won't go in that direction (of unregulated school system). And yet I think we are heading there..

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PartyPorpoise t1_isal7mv wrote

The tricky part is that a lot of American public schools are pretty bad, and I guess that makes a lot of people not trust the government to regulate private schools.

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GeneTwist70 t1_isa0yu6 wrote

What makes you think your country/region of Europe may deregulate it's education sector? Honest question as I haven't heard much specifically about privatization/deregulation efforts going on in Europe, though I do know that it's an ongoing thing.

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foxxie31 t1_isaczod wrote

At the moment most of the pressure is preschool/kindergarten privatization and on the other hand private donations cover more and more higher education like university. At least in Finland.

When private money is involved that basically means deregulation in some way or the other. Private companies want to decide how they use their money and there's less democratic oversight.

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GeneTwist70 t1_iseozan wrote

So wait, private businesses just make donations to universities so they can offer scholarships? Is it tax exempt or what, I've never heard of such a system.

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