America's education system would be more effective if completely privatized.

I appreciate my opponent's response and will do my best to understand the argument against my claim. Furthermore, I accept the terms and definitions stated above; the definitions appear to be quite broad. In regards to the definition of "consumer," the way it will be defined is in accordance with definition #1 (A purchaser of a good or service in retail). So, in this specific case, it would almost always be the parent(s). I would also like to define the terms listed below:Perfectly Free Market: (1) "A free market is a market in which economic intervention and regulation by the state is limited to tax collection, and enforcement of private ownership and contracts." This means absolutely no businesses are able to lobby for any unfair subsidies, government loans, tax discrimination, or other forms of regulation in order to gain a competitive advantage.Relatively Free Market: A market which is either a perfectly free market, or very close to it. Almost no unfair subsidies, taxes, loans, or other regulations are enforced in this form of a market.As you have said, privatizing education results in schools working towards the goals of a business. (2) One main goal of a business is to make as much profit as possible. I will use this for the basis of my argument of privatizing education being more effective.As you have mentioned, privatizing a sector of our economy does indeed make that product/service cheaper to the consumer. This partially contributes to the argument of privatization of education being more effective. Competition does lead to a decline in price. When a product/service is made efficiently in a competitive environment, this decline in price results in an increase in availability to society. One purpose of having an effective education system is to deem it affordable and usable to as many people as possible. With this decline in price, more people will be able to afford it and have access to it; therefore, the lower price of education does contribute to it being more effective overall.Secondly, another major factor that businesses must consider in order to maximize profit is the quality of the product/service. Quality is also a major contributor to the effectiveness of a product/service. The higher the quality, the more adequate it is to accomplish its purpose. The quality must be competitive with other schools of the specific price range. In terms of quality, results, and overall satisfaction, the businesses which succeed in a competitive market must cater to all needs/wants of the consumers (the consumer being the purchase of the education). A high quality service, in this situation, would mean that the education effectively teaches the children the specified material, and successfully prepares them for the job they wish to pursue (or merely basic life skills). Also, the amount of time required for the child to be at school per day may also contribute to the quality of the school, in terms of consumer demand. This is generally what the consumer (parents) of education look for when choosing a high quality school. The result is a high quality product/service which consumers are happy and satisfied with, which deems it even more effective.Example: (3) The market pertaining to computer hard drives is considered a relatively free & privatized market when compared to other sectors of our economy, such as education and health care. Throughout time, there has been an obvious demand for larger storage space, both for personal and business use. As the demand remained steady, it was met with a nearly exponential increase in hard drive storage price available. This demand was met with both domestic and international free trade. Consumer demand is the main factor that contributed to this huge increase in quality (hard drive space) of the product.Thirdly, along with the maximization of profit comes competitive wages. In order for businesses to succeed, they must have not just hard working employees, but "smart" working employees (they must be effective in helping the business succeed). Many factors contribute to obtaining hard working employees, one of which is employee wage. In order for an employee to stay working at a business in a relatively free market, it is generally not possible for that employee to get a similar job elsewhere that offers a higher wage. This forces the business to offer a competitively high wage, which the employee agrees on. Higher wages, in this instance, means teachers make a decently high amount of money. Although, competitive wages also result in an upper wage boundary. Higher wages result in a higher price to the consumer, and is therefore also limited in a relatively free market. Teachers will end up being paid what they agree is a "fair" wage; a wage that is not too high or not too low.In summary, the privatization of education does indeed result in private schools attempting to maximize their profit. In a relatively free market, this profit motive leads to a decline in price, an increase in quality, and a "fair" wage for employees. These three drastic results of privatizing education contribute to the increase in overall effectively of education privatization.(1) http://en.wikipedia.org...(2) http://en.wikipedia.org...(3) http://www.jcmit.com...