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Do you need it . . ?
Parents know that every
school day matters for their
children’s future. Many families are deeply concerned now
about their children's welfare at school. They would move their
children to
better schools today, if they could. School choice would give families
like
these the opportunity to seek a school they prefer:
- Families with children
in overcrowded schools
- Families who worry over
their children's academic progress
- Families who want their
children in schools that reflect their values
- Families who worry for
their children's safety
- Families who want their
children in schools closer to home or work
Families
who have these concerns - and who can afford it - regularly remove their
children from bad public schools. Some move to neighborhoods served by
better public schools. Others pay
tuition for their children to attend private schools.
Families who
cannot afford this could be issued tuition vouchers so that they too
could take action for their children. Instead their children are forced
to stay. This is deeply wrong. No children should be made to stay in
schools that their parents do not favor simply because they were born
to parents of limited means. This is the fundamental injustice that
tuition vouchers overcome.
The
belief supporting school choice is not that private schools are better
than
public schools, or the other way around. The belief is that children
will do better if their parents can choose between them. The evidence -
both national and international - is that they do.
And the schools get better, too, in competing to win the favor of the
families.
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