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> you'll get to hear rant after rant from that side's best and brightest. Nothing endears me to school choice more than hearing this kind of condescension and

• HDThoreaun 4y ago
  School choice exemplifies the worst of our hyper individualistic culture. Yes, it would help the children of the hyper involved parents, but the remaining children stuck in the public schools would have far worse outcomes, and guess what, they need to contribute to society too. Creating a society that doesn't look out for those who need the most help is not a path to success.
  • haberman 4y ago
    If you dismiss the concerns of wide swaths of parents about how their kids are being educated, but you also want to forbid them from taking their business elsewhere, you're basically saying they should be confined to an institution that doesn't care about them.
    • HDThoreaun 4y ago
      No one is saying that. Theyre free to take their business elsewhere. They just still have to pay for all the other kids to be educated.
      • haberman 4y ago
        The other kids are still paid to be educated, using the per-pupil funds that are allotted to those children. What you are saying is that the per-pupil funds allotted to the child who is no longer in public school must still go to the public school, even if that public school system has alienated the parents to the point that the kids are gone. There is no accountability in that, just a license to dismiss the concerns of people who are upset or dissatisfied. Also private school is too expensive for many people. It shouldn't be only rich people who get to make that choice.