Megan McArdle has been on a rare old tear recently, pushing the argument for school choice, here and here and here and here and here. It will not surprise some readers that I rather agree with her.
Clearly, however, this just proves my foolishnesss. Did you know that it’s impossible to make a good faith argument in favour of school choice or any programme that gives poor families greater input into where their children are educated? Me neither. Time for me to be telt, obviously.
Exhibit A) Matt Yglesias:
…the United States already “allows” poor parents to withdraw their children from inner city school systems in much the same way that it allows rich and middle class parents to withdraw their children from inner city school systems. They’re “allowed” to send their kids to a private school that’s willing to educate them, and they’re “allowed” to move elsewhere. Obviously, in practice poor families have less practical capacity to do this.
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