OHV notec wrote:Quiklilcav wrote:Aren't public schools funded based on enrollment numbers? I doubt we'd give a school the same amount of money for teaching 10 students as 1000...?OHV notec wrote:Also, if public schools continue to decline, and private schools become more popular, what keeps them from also declining?
Competition. When a public school sucks, and people pull their kids out to send them to private school, the public school still gets the same funding as it did before. When a private school loses enrollment, they also lose the money from those enrollments. If they increase the cost, they will only drive out more students. The only way to survive is to improve.