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When given the chance, most parents will do what it takes to give their children a better education. Many of them will send them to a private school or even homeschool, should their local public education institution fail to equip the children with the skills needed to be fully functional. The public school institution, just like any other institution, needs to continue to sell the soap and/or prove that it needs to be supported by any means necessary.
Can’t blame the teachers’ unions for their passion to thwart choice and competition. They need the monopoly in order to exist and serve its purpose for better or worse (or more towards the later). Funny thing is, public school teachers know their system is a disaster and many of them send their own children to private schools. Can’t blame them for that, or the fact they have to sell the system like Papa John’s has to forever tell you that their pizza is better than Pizza Hut and Domino’s. After all, the latter two are trying to tell you that Papa is full of it, in their own ways. No different than Walmart vs. Target, JC Penney’s vs. Kohl’s, Home Depot vs. Lowe’s, Kroger’s vs. Albertson’s, etc. The only difference is that the public schools can suck the taxpayers’ money to the point in which parents have no choice but their local public school.
Meanwhile, these public school teachers can reap the rewards of job security and benefits, even if too many children slip through the cracks. No different than making an omelet… you know, “break a few eggs?” Those children will have a hard knock life, but I got mine. Sucks to be you, tough luck kid… now move along, I have a life to live. I really hate those kinds of people. That is the problem and government only makes the problem worse.
Further Reading
Demand for Private Schools Is Up
“Between 2013 and 2015, enrollment at private schools increased 7 percent nationally, according to a biennial count of private school students released in August by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics,” the Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, reported in October. “That continued the positive trend that started with a 2 percent increase from 2011 to 2013.”
The National Center for Education Statistics report coincides with a survey released this week by EdChoice, which found the “schooling options military parents are able to access now don’t match what they want for their children.” When military parents are informed about school choice programs, the survey results show “support for those programs increases dramatically.”
Debunking Five Common Myths About School Choice
Recently, Step Up for Public Schools (SUPS) released a pamphlet titled “The Truth about Vouchers and Privately Run Charters.” Unfortunately, a better title for their flier would have been “Half-Truths.” SUPS raises several tired talking points about school choice in Wisconsin that have been repeatedly debated, disproven, and regurgitated over more than two decades of voucher discussion.
Today, we’ll break down their “Fast Facts” on how the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the Parental Private School Choice Program (Racine) have affected education in the Badger State. While there are also some interesting statements about non-instrumentality charter schools (the same schools that regularly outscore both regular public schools and instrumentality charter schools in Milwaukee, we’ll save that for another day. Let’s look at what the SUPS has to say about Wisconsin’s voucher programs.
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