Our school must be excellent, or we lose our students. If educational tax dollars followed the student, we'd all be on a more level playing field, and there would be more excellence in both public and non-public schools. There will be no level playing field as long as public and independent schools do not have the same requirements for admission and expulsion. Educational choice will make public schools a dumping ground for all the students other schools will not accept. For Discussion 1.
Proponents differ on what is most basic and compelling about educational choice.