Taxpayers already pay for many services provided by private schools, which relieves public schools of significant financial obligations, such as those costs associated with educating disabled and special needs children. It seems educators are in favor of choice, but only when it is their choice. Public schools often have better resources than private schools. Many private schools have adopted the same type of curriculum and are not clearly better than the public schools in the area. The distance of the private schools add one to two hours commuting time to children's lives.
Children prefer the public school because most of their friends go there.
The reason for this seeming contradiction lies in the fact that too many families are denied real choices in education the same kinds of choices they have in nearly every other area of life, from what kind of car they drive to the food they eat to the color and style of their clothing. What parents are demanding in ever-growing numbers is school choice . While Milwaukee has served as a victorious model for the rest of the nation, the movement in the remainder of Wisconsin continues to be stalled by a politically powerful monopoly. Even in Milwaukee, school choice is only available to a small percentage of low-income parents. In the area of public school choice, the current charter school law is written so that organizers outside of Milwaukee must petition their local school board to approve their sub-grant and full grant.