A clear choice
Published: Thu, Jul. 27, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Thu, Jul. 27, 2006 08:39AM
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closeYour Sunday editorial about school choice ("No cure at all," July 23) is missing one crucial component: the student. You argue against school choice because it won't "help the public schools." What's more important, the public schools or the students who go to them?
Perhaps, just perhaps, if a public school were penalized for not doing its job, its management team would implement corrective changes. If a private sector business is failing and you choose to not purchase their products, they have to make do with less. The choice to them is clear: Turn things around or else. If this can work in the free market, surely it can work in the public school system.
In this scenario, the school will attempt to improve and the child in question will get a better education. Sounds like a win-win to me.
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Andrew Penchuk
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