Monopoly school choice: better than no school choice
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 By David HansenColumbus City Schools (CCS) trumpets on its homepage its “school choice” program.
They’ve even produced a television commercial about it.
Do listen to the teasing line: “You can pick the right school to go to, and then apply to go there!”
Of course a true choice program actually gives people the right school and not just an application form for it.
Still, I think this is a small victory in the Long March to Liberty in Learning. What causes people to demand freedom from government tryanny? The desire to overcome frustrated aspirations is often at play. CCS’s choice program will be creating and then frustrating aspirations on the part of many parents.
A little glasnost and perestroika helped to bring down the Berlin Wall and CCS’s “school choice” program may some day do the same.
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