School Choice Answering the Critics Below is a summary of critics arguments against school choice and the logical rebuttals. Poor people can t get to the schools of their choice. This argument ignores current reality, insults poor people, and assumes that choice proponents don t want to include transportation programs in choice policies. The fact is that many of Vermont s tuitioning towns do not provide transportation for students yet kids get to the schools they need. In addition, some public school districts don t provide transportation for every student in the district.
Transportation challenges shouldn t be used to nail shut the door to school choice options.
Therefore, school choice would undermine a town s sense of community. It s important to remember that most people in a town do not have children in school. They find the center of their communities in many different places in churches, synagogues, town halls, libraries, community and senior centers, parks, and downtown districts. But all schools are important, not just public ones. And public schools don t hold a monopoly on the center of community life.