Yikes: Louisiana's bold bid to privatize schools

[Selatius]

21. That's a problem of overcrowding, and that's far easier to solve than this complex bill.

If you want to solve overcrowding, build more schools and hire way more teachers. You don't get high scores if the teacher has so many students that the teacher cannot address individual needs. A classroom of 20 or 25 is preferable to 40.

Siphoning off money from already depleted public schools and using that money to pay for-profit charter schools won't make the schools any better as a whole, and the charters will still dump the poorest performing students onto the public schools.

If the politicians in Louisiana are so cheap that they don't even want to invest money in hiring as many teachers as necessary and building as many schools as necessary to increase the quality of education, then they should simply say so.

Pushing this bill through to privatize the schools won't solve the problem of too many kids and too few teachers and facilities.