Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund private education?

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What do private schools teach? Why do conservative Christian colleges do particularly poor at education? This was demonstrated in the Cellar on 3 Aug 2006 entitled:
Evolution’s Backers in Kansas Start Counterattack Substancially missing in their curriculum was math and science. Calculus and statistics not taught. No wonder a student is so easily manipulated in attributing it all to god. As one student from a Christian College noted (when his only math is called business math - better called accounting); we are being trained to spread the word. How is that any different from Middle East Madrassas so criticized by conservative western leaders; schools that also train extremism – religious inspired politics? Why would we criticize Middle East governments for financing their 'private' schools and yet do same domestically?

Just like reasoning for Saddam’s WMDs, this advantage by financing private schools is predicated on popular myths. If the problem is quality of education in public schools, then fix the problem. Instead micromangers want to impose massive programs from the top without first learning the problem. Will throwing money at a problem solve it? Yes when the micromanger comes from business schools. But then those same people said Einstein could run any restaurant better – a concept taught to micromanagers in business schools.

Will making class sized smaller solve all problems? Yes where the micromanger read some study – rather than also read the other studies that demonstrate no. But again, the devil is in the details. Micromanagement is the concept behind “No child left behind”. I don’t know any education industry professional who talks kindly of that micromagement example. Details quickly get lost in executive summaries and micromanagement. Forgetting details – such as what is the problem – and taxpayers should now finance private schools.