Partial Reforms

“Those who would bring about a controlled reform from the outside have a dicey problem. They want to use private sector pressure to make the government schools straighten up and fly right, but they don’t want this privatization to get completely out of hand. Once parents enjoy a real taste of educational freedom, the result might be that the government schools would clean up their act — but they would still lag behind the free schools. This would mean that no one would return to them, and they would eventually fail rather than reform. Partial privatization is difficult to do. It is like leaving the door to the monkey house partially open” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, pp. 39-40).