Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games (2010)
The drive to use public tax dollars for private schools is great when it is STEM.  Seems good right? Charter Schools for STEM. Who could argue?<p>People miss that the primary interest groups that are lobbying for private schools, that are arguing against public schools,  are for Religion.  They want to be able to teach the bible as fact, not teach evolution, to allow prayer.<p>By syphoning public dollars, into private schools, they are bypassing the separation of state-church.<p>This then takes dollars away from public schools, which then struggle. Then the awful state of the public schools, is used as an argument for more private schools, and thus more religious schools.<p>Eventually the population wont be able to think in scientific terms anymore, logical reasoning will be gone.