It would take a book, not a column, to refute all the voucher opponents' many arguments, which range from specious to preposterous. The study shows that the relatively small number of students who use vouchers to go to private schools are not the only beneficiaries of such programs. The public-school monopoly has proven itself resistant to change, and it has given us little reason to think it can improve itself without the nudge of competition. We have already lost generations to that way of thinking. We need school choice not because private schools are better, but because they scare the pants off the public ones.
Flicker is a child of public schools.
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