Simply having these alternatives around helps improve competition in our education system. With school choice, you are asking schools public and private to compete for the opportunity to educate your child. Parents who can afford to move to an area with quality public schools, or enroll their child in private school already are exercising school choice. Parents without such means are forced to send their child to a school assigned by the government regardless of what the parents think of that school. School choice, completely implemented, would give the power and opportunity to choose a school to all parents regardless of what they earn or where they live.
Many parents are happy with the public school that their child is attending.
Those parents would simply keep their child in his or her present school. However, parents who are not satisfied should be free to send their child to a different school. Given that you pay for your child s education through your taxes, you should be able to choose your child s school. Opponents of school choice argue that giving parents a voice and a choice of schools will destroy public schools. The truth is all schools can only grow stronger as a result of competition.