Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What are the advantages and disadvantages of banning private schools?
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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.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. While the wealthy can buy their way out, they have no stake in the common system
  2. A school place that money can buy passes advantage down the generations