#WE_STAND!
School choice would go a LONG way to fixing the country long term.
It’s long been established that education majors have among the lowest average SAT scores among majors.
END the Department of Education.
That will break the dam of corrupt, politicized public education, and return it to states, where it belongs.
Bump!
This would destroy all of the good private schools out there.
well DuVos. well Mr. President. where is it? either get rid of the federal schools (i.e., completely defund the subsidized teachers’ country club that they are) or at least give us the right to spend our money more directly on our own kids’ education. one small thing you can do for the working class. but where is it?
i thought school choice was your big thing, one of the big promises? but i hear nothing about initiatives or, gulp, implementation at the dept. of ed. come to think of it.
death to all unions
Critics are right about school choice skimming the cream off the top, but they are very wrong about the mechanism. They skim the cream by not having to deal with parents (and their kids) who are indifferent or worse about their kids education.
The ability to tell disruptive bullies they are not welcome is also a big help.
This would, over time, finally bring a sizeable proportion of black Americans into the America’s mainstream. Their lives have been sabotaged by low quality inner-city government schools.
Not every private school has the answers, though most would be an improvement. The main thing is that solutions for inner city black kids will be found, and will expand.
I’m referring to an experience about 20 years back, though I think the principles are unchanged. I spent a year with my family in a city that had an active charter school program. We had a wide choice of good schools available for our child. It was great.
There was a variety of private schools that were now less expensive than normal. Even the public schools were better than is usually the case. One promoted their good students as much as their sports team. Another looked like an expensive prep school.
Of course, “public” schools are really government schools. This became all the more apparent to me when one (and only one) school would not consider my daughter for admittance. We were from the wrong side of the tracks, living in a less affluent neighborhood. On the south side of the street, we were out of the district for this public school. I consider myself and my family to be members of the public, but this nearby “public” school was the only school to reject us.