Shareholders don’t care how the school performs or how well the students do. They only care about turning a profit with as little effort and investment as possible.

I agree that our kids are being left behind and that the current system isn’t working but it’s not because there isn’t competition. It’s because schools are being defunded, teachers are under paid, there aren’t enough teachers and they don’t have the resources they need. Competition won’t help that, it will make the system worse because as we have seen in every sector of our economy, capitalism serves those at the top, not those at the bottom.

That’s not scalable though and there will undoubtedly be huge swaths of the county that will be left in the dust because they’re poor. If the students can’t pay for the education who does? The DoE? Now we’re back where we started

Children’s education isn’t something you want to mess around with like that. It’s not something you can just shrug your shoulders and say “oh well, maybe next year”

This is a gross oversimplification of how funding works. Schools require a huge amount of overhead and the idea that their funding can ebb and flow at the whims of wherever students parents want to drag them each year is unsustainable. Imagine having to fire or hire large numbers of staff each year because it’s not in the budget now or you don’t have enough teachers to students? Now add that to the already growing problem of teacher burnout and shortages.