Government may promise to give all students a shot at a top college, but clearly it can't make unqualified students qualified simply by forcing their admission to top schools. Government should not be dictating who should be admitted to which schools. It shouldn't be operating schools. Where there is government, there is control. Voucher advocates, take heed.
Private schools are better at educating children than government schools.
Marshall Fritz thinks that answer misses a big point and distorts the school-reform movement. The rule about pipers, payers, and tunes is endlessly cited in the analysis of government policy. Jacob Huebert reminds us that it's applicable there too. The logic of government education leads inexorably to wider intervention in the economy. Gary Wolfram explains.