Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
Not sure how school choice works
If everyone chooses to go to the best school, how do we fit them?
Each student has a different idea of what a "best school" is, RW.
Some prefer schools with no discipline whatsoever, where the kids are permitted to run free. Others prefer a stricter, more studious environment.
Of course, there are specialized schools, like Madrassas aka Islamic seminaries like where Obama attended,or yeshivas for Jewish children. In the major liberal cities, they actually have schools which are strictly for Homos and people of other diverse sexual preferences.
Parents decide. Some schools in a district have great facilities, winning sports teams, good teachers.......others don’t
What happens when every parent takes their voucher and wants to go to the “good school”?
And the money spent, has no significant impact on educational outcomes. We have known this since the 60s.
When every parent takes their voucher and goes to the good schools, the good schools grow to the new numbers and the crap schools die.
How do these good schools grow as most are overcrowded already?
The high school where I taught in Florida for 10 years had over 3200 students the year I left. Because our district had a magnet school program, many of our students living in out attendance zone were in one of the magnet schools. If those programs were cut, over 4500 students would be attending that school. They did build a new high school about 2 years after I left to relieve the overcrowding, bit that took 12+ years to purchase land, plan and build. Overoptimistic answers like your are never easy and rarely realistic.
Where did you get the idea that education has not improved since the 60s? Are you repeating the same old tired education bashing talking points?