Warp wrote:

>   Ok, it might not be "fair" that all children are not given the same
> opportunities, but do you really want to lower the overall education level
> of your entire country just in the name of "fairness"?

As somebody who actually lives in the UK, I don't think banning private 
schools would do anything positive.

Hypothetically, everybody should have an equal chance in life. Obviously 
this is impossible, but we can still strive to get as close to it as 
possible.

However... closing private schools isn't going to make this happen.

If you're going to ban "private schools", first you have to define what 
one is. If that sounds silly, consider that people run phone-in 
competations which are really just gambling, but manage to circumvent 
gambling laws because they add a question to the competation, therefore 
placing it under a different branch of law.

If you try to ban private schools, there will be similarly absurd 
loopholes that people will exploit. And even if they can't, rich kids 
will still end up getting the best books and learning materials, the 
finest tutors for after-school extra tuition, and so on and so forth. 
They'll still have a vast advantage over everybody else.

Yes, it would be nice if the world was perfect. But this isn't the right 
way to achieve that. Banning private schools would just make a lot of 
work for law-makers and law-enforcers without actually achieving anything.

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