Santorum bashes public schools, says they're stuck in factory era

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26. And how would a non-public school system help everyone get started?

Sure, those with rich parents, or perhaps in a rich area (because he didn't seem to rule out a district being allowed to fund education, just states and the nation) would get a good education, and those with moderately well-off parents would get a moderate education; but those in poor areas, with parents out of work, get screwed - for life. And then their children will be screwed, etc., ad infinitum. They might try a religious school, willing to give them the basics for free, in return for heavy indoctrination (because, remember, you've removed the state and federal govt from this, so religious extremists will have a free hand in what gets defined as 'education'), but that screws them just as much - what chances do people have who get taught that science is evil, the world is 6000 years old, and there's no such thing as global warming?

Education standards can be bad enough in many districts in the USA as it is, with the emphasis on local funding; remove the state and federal govt from it, and you'll set in stone the worst class mobility that a developed country has ever seen. Half the country will pass what is now the developing world, as it goes down, and they rise.