Comments on: School selection or parental choice?

By: J. Ellenberg

J. Ellenberg — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:52:50 +0000

Do you think, right now, that chance doesn’t determine how your children are raised?

By: sniffy McNickles

sniffy McNickles — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:54:00 +0000

Should a lottery be enforced? In other words, should random chance tell me how my children are raised? If I do have a choice in the matter, I start to wonder if there is a democratic method of voting with my wallet, as well.

By: Idiot/Savant

Idiot/Savant — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:38:26 +0000

Lottery. It’s the only way which is fair.

By: Damien Smith

Damien Smith — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:21:51 +0000

A clarity-of-thought question: if there is no price mechanism (no top-up or no expensive moving-of-house to a good school district) and no selection testing, how do you propose school administrators allocate places in an oversubscribed school under a voucher regime, should one exist?

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:53:33 +0000

Well just off the top of my head (i.e. without reading the link) I would say be suspicious of people who use boilerplate pseudopopulist phrases like ‘whatever parents, not bureaucrats or politicians, want’. That’s just, frankly, moronic know-nothingism.