Why Johnny Likes Big Government

One writer slashes away at the idea that public schools should adopt a free enterprises paradigm. Link. Excerpts:

[S]tudents are definitely not customers, because customers are not forced by law to patronize businesses, but students are forced to attend school. Customers choose when, where, and how they will, or will not, deal with businesses. Public-school students rarely have these choices, unless politicians or school authorities grant them.

Also, in the business world: customers do not have to please businesses, and are not tested and graded, and thus do not pass or fail; customers fearlessly judge businesses and their products or services; customers do not have official detailed records (except credit records) that are kept for many years and that might negatively impact them for the rest of their lives.

So if public schools are obviously not like free-market businesses, precisely what are they?

Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions.

In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.