How is homeschooling a model of the Free Enterprise System?

Question

It has occurred to me that homeschooling is a model of the Free Enterprise System...

Parents and students choose to invest in the materials and courses and activities they deem most beneficial to them.

The same will not survive in the homeschool marketplace if they do not provide adequate value.

Everyone is free to attempt to provide a valuable product or service to their local homeschool group or even the national or international homeschool marketplace. Survival of the idea or business depends purely on merit.

What other ways is homeschooling a model of free enterprise?

Bonus question: Is (how is) public school a model of a socialist system? This should get some activity going, eh?

Answer 1

home schooling can be free if you use an online charter school

http://www.homeschoolinganswers.info

Answer 2

You asked for some activity ^_^...

Having grown up in Europe, and although my former country is democratic, it is also largely socialistic because of the cradle to grave government entitlement system.

This is however changing quickly, because these governments have found out people simply cannot continue to pay such high taxes to keep all these programs going since many people now depend on it for a large part of their needs/living, and benefits.

It takes a vast amount of "working" taxpayers to supply the endless amount of money needed to provide such services in return for "free";  however we know very well these services/benefits are far from being "free",  because of the enormous amount of taxes the  people pay to receive said service/benefits.

In any socialistic system you are required to pay taxes for services you may never need, or want, taking the opportunity away for you to save and provide for those items you do need, or want, henceforth  greatly limiting a persons independence to provide, and take care of themselves.

If this continues to be the case for several generations, people will also loose the ability to provide for themselves, because they have become so dependent on services that they could have provided for themselves given the choice/chance.

I would like to see my taxes go to support the service needed for the military, infrastructure, emergency services, police, firefighters, the disabled, widows, children, and other needed services; needed being the key; even for temporary assistance to those who need it to get back on their feet, but temporary is again the key word.

People are very generous when it comes to helping one another, and when they do it out of their own free will they are o so generous; government was never meant to be a social relieve agency.

I firmly believe that everyone should be able to pursue the education they desire, but not that they have the right to have someone else pay for it.

Public school, universal health care, welfare, all these are all noble idea's but ultimately lead to dependency, monopolies, unnecessary rules, and restrictions on who can provide services, and this in turn leads to a decline in the quality of services, or products they provide.

If a handful of providers become the only game in town so to speak, and everybody has to come to them to receive a service what incentive do they have  to provide a better service, or even improve the services they provide? None,  because they will get paid any how no matter what.

If any private business was run like that it would go out of business, because people would go somewhere else.

In the case of public schooling, and with the help of teachers unions, this has been the prevailing attitude for a long time, and parents keep supporting a system they know is failing their children, all in all I find this to be the greatest travesty of all, because they should be demanding a better product.

This is why school choice; private, charter, virtual, and home schooling should all be accepted, and given the same credit as the public school system since they are great alternatives to public schooling and have proved over time that they provide an excellent education.

Competition is good, that is what a free market is all about.

If you get better service, or a better product for a better price somewhere else you should have that choice, without being limited, or penalized.

Quote:

"Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the costumer tries to get as little as he can for his money".

Max Forman.