Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

[Aliantha]

Private schools offer a better education because it has become a self fulfilling profecy. When you tell people they can buy a better education for their kids, they'll pay for it through they eye teeth if they have to. This means that private schools generally have more money and therefor better resources to aid learning.

They also offer better social capital which is really the main benefit kids get from private schooling. Believe me, the 'old boys' club doesn't start when you're an old boy. It starts when you're about 6.

So, the wealthy kids go to private schools. They create networks of friends and acquaintances while they're there and then when they take over daddy's business, they have a neat little package to go with it.

Education is not just about educational outcomes. If you believe that, you're living in dreamland.