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Not a pipe dream.  All we have to do is get government out of the schools business, and let people take their kid's education dollars to whatever school they want.   Then you get lots of specialized schools that people can choose from.[/quote]

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School choice.[/quote]

I'm a die hard Democrat who support school choice. I think that the McKay Scholarship in FL is great...if you read the fine print very closely and are ok w/losing an IEP and everything that goes along with it in return for your kid being able to go to private school. However, my concern is regarding how the new batch of private schools that pop up when school choice is implemented are regulated. Look at Florida, look at DC, look at Baltimore. Once school choice comes to town, so do a ton of shitty schools. And often the kids are the ones who suffer when their parents put them into a school that isn't in any way accredited or regulated or held to any standards.[/quote]

No place in the US has real school choice, so I think what you're talking ab out in FL, DC, Baltimore are charter schools, which are different.  But the vast majority of charter schools are better than the government-run alternatives.

We have thousands of restaurants in Fairfax County.  Other than basic health and safety inspections, nobody regulates them for quality.  But somehow people seem to know which restaurants are bad and they go out of business.  
[b]It will be the same with schools.  Good schools will compete for students, and improve and grow.  Bad schools will die out.[[/b]/quote]

Good theory, but it hasn't happened anywhere that we have charters. Usually the worst schools are charters [/quote]

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