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Saturday, January 27, 2018

Why School Choice Will Continue to Grow in Popularity

National School Choice Week (NSCW), an annual event that celebrates education choice, has been smashing attendance records year after year. This year’s NSCW is “estimating about 6.7 million people to participate in a record-breaking 32,240 celebrations,” Watchdog.org reported recently. “The organization said there have been more than 58,000 events planned across the U.S. and around the world since 2011.”

Families embrace school choice for many reasons. Our nation is composed of millions of diverse children with various needs, interests, and abilities, and our government school system works about as well as giving all Americans an ibuprofen tablet and expecting it to cure maladies ranging from cancer to diabetes to athlete’s foot.

Not only is the one-size-fits-all approach ineffective at teaching students with unique learning methods, it’s also inherently prone to corruption and waste, which hurts you, the hard-working taxpayer. When an institution is handed funding (and lots of it) year after year, as is the case with public schools, it has no reason to strive for improvement or use the money prudently.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The choice if school mandates the place of student attends. When the child goes to thr bus, where do they go. The parent must attend do they have chess clubs and spores for the students to play. What about the cafeteria food do they eat. School choices are goid let us choose schools.

Anonymous said...

I know I didn't want my two girls going to public school with all of those people from other countries and skin colors.
I pay for a great place that is religious, white, american, and also teaches values, along with real education.