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<a href = "http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/nyregion/14sex.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Film With Same-Sex Parents Splits School District</a>
This is just one of many examples of why collective systems are not efficient. Besides the fact that neither side will get what they want (there will be some compromise or a further tangle of regulations to satisfy both sides), consider the cost and effort expended by each side to fight the issue as well as the cost and effort spent by the government officiating between the two sides. The reason this is happening is because different needs and desires are fighting over one system. That system has no capability of splitting into multiple parts so that it can adapt to diversity.
If schools were private, they would (and do) split. You would send your kid to the school you like and I would do likewise. Then we would both have all that extra time on our hands (instead of fighting over control of the single inflexible system) and we could do something productive, like invent the next generation energy source maybe. And all the taxes used to settle our arguments would stay in the economy providing the capital for our new found productive time.
