Norway and Finland both have a voucher system for child education. You can “spend” your voucher at the public school or the private/religious school of your choice. A lot freer than here. We home schooled; I picked up the bill for that and still paid my taxes to keep the teacher’s unions fat, dumb, and happy.
The Scandinavian programs can work in a relatively homogenous country where personal ethics would frown upon trying the cheat the system.
In a multi-cultural country, that breaks down.
>>Norway and Finland both have a voucher system for child education. You can “spend” your voucher at the public school or the private/religious school of your choice. A lot freer than here. We home schooled; I picked up the bill for that and still paid my taxes to keep the teacher’s unions fat, dumb, and happy.
The difference is that Nordic nations are full of Nordic people. Drive through the poor side of town and you’ll see all sorts of scams, such as “We Buy Diabetic Test Strips” and some really crappy looking “Free VPK” places (free is paid for by the state here). How long do you think it would take for “schools” to be set up that take the voucher and warehouse the kid for the day?
I did not say in my post that US was NOT partly Socialist. I was refuting the nonsense that Nordic nations are NOT Socialist. I did this by saying that people will argue one or two points and claim that there is no Socialism because of these points.
Thank you for making that point.