Choice lets parents find a school that respects their rights
- Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 25, 2023
- 1 min read
"Families should not be stuck in an education system that actively undermines parental rights and ideologically grooms children, argues Kaylee McGhee White in the Washington Examiner. School choice give parents "the freedom to yank their students out of a school that disrespects their values and send them to one that better fits their needs."
Public school officials who treat parents like child abusers if they don't "affirm" their child's new gender identity with sufficient enthusiasm are going to drive families away. Most districts are losing enrollment. Alienating parents is not a smart strategy.
I don't think anything in public education will really change until we stop letting ed schools act as guardians of the school house door. As long as the guild controls the teaching profession, and teachers all have to pass through ed schools on the way up to the chalkboard, this sort of attitude will slip in.
-- Ann in L.A.
If anyone wants to see how parents really see school choice, look at how the elite or elected politicians handle their children's education. Gov. Youngkin sent his children to a college prep private school in DC that is much further to the left of Youngkin's publicly professed politics. The same would happen in school choice but parents would be facing the trade off of ideology versys academic performance. In the end, school choice is about most people settling on a school that will admit their child, much like college. SD