> Not sure how it is in the US but in Europe there's not really a free market with regards to how children are taught.
Homeschooling is the closest to that free market in the US. Your comment prompted me to look up the homeschooling statistics [1] and I was surprised by the results for Europe. The US outstrips the rest of the world by number of children in homeschooling by a large margin.
US homeschooling outcomes are so far promising [2], so one could say it is a pretty competitive alternative market.
Homeschooling is the closest to that free market in the US. Your comment prompted me to look up the homeschooling statistics [1] and I was surprised by the results for Europe. The US outstrips the rest of the world by number of children in homeschooling by a large margin.
US homeschooling outcomes are so far promising [2], so one could say it is a pretty competitive alternative market.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_international_st...
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261885035_The_Socia...