I think the thought process behind this is generally good, something like "change the incentives of public school funding to help the worst off segments of our population get a better education". This is something we should spend more effort on.<p>The problem is I think the author making this specific suggestion on how to achieve that is having a hard time understanding the implicit statement they are making on the other side of this coin: "you don't have the right to decide how your child should be educated, a committee will decide intimate details of yours and your family's lives, where they go every day, what happens when they get there, what the curriculum is, what happens if it doesn't go well, what values should be encouraged, what narratives will be portrayed'.<p>For reference I'm not some radical libertarian I'm fairly centrist and progressive, but the ability to have autonomy in deciding what is getting blasted into your kids head every week day for the first 17 years of their life is not something to scoff at. If that means not every single person gets the exact same opportunity I'm ok with that (and outside of possibly this person's utopic vision that would be true in the other scenario as well).