- Question
What are the advantages and disadvantages of banning private schools?
This entry maps the debate over abolishing private schools, setting out the opposing positions that banning them would be good — for equality — and that it would be bad, weighing the costs against the benefits.
Position 1 of 2
Read this position →It is good to ban private schools
This position holds that abolishing private schools would be an improvement, because it removes the option of buying a better education, binds every family's interest to the quality of the common system, and narrows advantages inherited rather than earned.
Position 2 of 2
Read this position →It is bad to ban private schools
This position holds that abolishing private schools would do harm, because it removes a choice from parents without improving the schools that remain, and leaves families who dissent from the state curriculum with nowhere else to go.