So we have this perverse situation where public money gets poured into failing schools in those communities, while the schools in those communities that people really want to go to remain unsupported. They have come to understand that they want choices and alternatives and that parents should not have to accept a school they don't want their children to attend. That realization is beginning to change the political landscape, and the landscape will continue to change as parents communicate these ideas to their political representatives. These representatives, who are very often responsive to organized interests that may be opposed to choice, will come around on this issue and realize that their constituents are no longer willing to sit by and let their children attend schools that are failing. I think this is going to be the major force that will change the way education is provided in this country, because parents are no longer going to accept the status quo.
School choice is fundamentally an ethical moral issue, an issue of social justice.
It is a sense of moral outrage that will eventually change public policy. It's a recognition on the part of the American people that the current situation is just unfair and doesn't meet the needs of a large portion of our population. While much of the population is served well by public education, there's a very large minority that isn't. We need to come to terms with that.