This is an instance where common sense and research tend to meet on the same ground. One result of the emerging schools of choice is the degree to which they attract such students, ones who were having, or who were themselves, problems in the former school they had been required to attend, whose performance and achievement then improved. Those who take an objective look at such schools will discover students who were in special education programs in their former public school who are no longer so categorized in a school of their preference. Others, classified as having Attention Deficit Disorder, ADD, are not placed on Ritalin, or no longer require it, in a school acceptable to them. School choice may not eliminate all violence.
Some incidents occasionally happen in higher education, which is a choice system.
But the evidence seems clear it would ease the pressure on the present public schools and benefit students and the public interest.