Choose or Loose – Your Child Could be “Left Behind”

Don't Shoot the Horse

It would be interesting to note if History has ever had a controversy which has found staunch opponents unified for a common cause as in the debate over School Choice. Citing that school vouchers offer an escape route; Robert Reich, former secretary of labor, The Black Alliance for Education Options, The Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options are found siding with President Bush along with the Institute for Justice, a libertarian think tank and law firm, on pro choice. In contrast, President Clinton, Hochschild and Scovronick, non-urbanites (the right) and republicans who don’t like vouchers and me…. find that School Choice is more of a political decision than an educational one.

Now, everyone has there grounds for their belief and desires, and I think they are all valid, if unfounded. This reform, based on benefiting the individual student is a contradiction of the very goal of the American Education system – for the good of all! I unequivocally agree “Vouchers will not be politically acceptable to the majority of Americans if they are designed to move more than small numbers of poor children into middle-class schools…” (Hochschild and Scovronick, page 123).

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