Tomorrow's Professor Msg. Apparently, the Economics Department has a lot of work to do yet. Market competition is not like athletic competition, in which the winners get to go dancing and the losers get to watch.
Market competition is the discovery of comparative advantages.
In the United States, the comparative advantage is in knowledge-intensive, technologically advanced goods. It has been so for almost 180 years now. Perhaps it is the education establishment that is responsible for people demanding choice and patronizing private schools and charter schools. Perhaps these demands are attempts to solve real or perceived problems with government schools that have abdicated their responsibility. In a market economy there must be competition, meaning winners and losers.