How good is good enough?

Some parents who would change the rules to get rid of private or selective schools justify sending their children to them on the grounds that their other options, under the existing rules, are not good enough. This need not be in any way hypocritical. One reason to change the rules is that doing so would help make them good enough. More importantly, as I argued in the previous chapter, it is the right thing to do. In almost all real world situations, the benefits to others of sending your child to an inadequate school will not be great enough to justify doing so.