I agree with this assessment . Source have not seen a goalie duel and am not interested <| sep |> I bumped in a sandygast accidentally . Stufful took forever for me to find . <| sep |> I take the structure of your belief to beIf the objective of education is 1 equitable and 2 effective outcomes for students , then 3 the best way to achieve this is through public education , and 4 the existence of private schools detract from this project . I take the implicit argument to be that , if wealthy parents can send their children to private schools , they will not be invested in the public school system , which in the long term will result in neglect and underfunding of the public system . In response , I ' d say that it is possible that , as you ' ve stated them , your two objectives may be too imprecise to answer the question well . A reasonable interpretation of effective would be that schools prepare students well for further education in university . In terms of academic preparation , many of the strongest institutions in the world are private . Or maybe the purpose of school is to instill values and prepare students for citizenship . To this end , private education often responds uniquely to values and needs of individual communities , as with religious education . The second objective , equitable , seems to be more clear cut . Presumably , you mean that a similar quality of education should be broadly available to students regardless of family background . Obviously having elite schools that are expensive and therefore exclusive cuts against this value . However , it is unclear that public education is the only way to solve this problem . If , in a thought experiment , all students were randomly assigned to private institutions that were paid out of a government fund , but were not government run , then education quality would not track family background , but would still not be public in the way the term is usually understood in the US . At least , these are the terms of the debate over voucher programs and charter schools in the US . It is possible that heterogeneous education institutions necessarily detract from universal goals of preparation for college and equal outcomes for students of different backgrounds . But given that , in the US , many public schools are already failing students of different backgrounds , it isn ' t obvious that the shrinking influence of singleinstitution public schools are the source of the problem . If all students were mandated to spend the same amount on education and have the same options to attend any schools , we might see similar positive outcomes . It ' s an empirical question that is not yet answered .