Homie. Your entire article is a "laundry list of made-up facts and presumed conclusions." My comment is no more or less academic than this publication. You sound like someone who knows very little about education, and after reading some talking points you've decided you have it figured out. Maybe have some humility? Talk with people who are engaging in good-faith and have more industry knowledge than you do? No one knows less than the man who thinks he has nothing to learn.

I can easily come up with things the government does better. Let's go with infrastructure. Imagine you're building a 5G network. Three companies will build 3x the necessary towers in cities to serve the biggest customer base, and few if any in rural areas with low ROI. A public project would not have those constraints and incentives, and would build the right amount of towers for everyone everywhere. Once built, operation can go to the private sector for higher efficiency and better customer service.

The government is better at mass scale, resilience, and democratization of access; markets are better at efficiency, which often comes at the expense of resilience and broad access. Therefore, hybrid markets do things best.

If you think what schools need is another drain on resources via shareholder returns, you are gravely mistaken.