Lunch Break Read: Is School Choice Becoming the New Normal?
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While you’re taking your lunch break today, be sure to check out the latest Watchdog.org commentary by Logan Albright, titled, “Is school choice becoming the new normal?”
In the piece, Albright discusses the legislative progress being made in states across the U.S. to move beyond one-size-fits-all education, and put students first.
There was a time when it was taken for granted that all American kids would walk the same path from the ages of six to 18. Every morning, they’d rise at the crack of dawn, walk, bike, or bus, to the local school house, and have the three Rs drummed into them until mid-afternoon. This pattern was repeated five days a week, nine months out of the year, and few bothered to question it. It was a simpler time, some may say, but simpler isn’t always better.
In a time when schools have become increasingly dysfunctional, plagued by violence, poor performance, and even blatant cheating by teachers, parents are starting to wonder why they should be forced to send their children to such unproductive and damaging environments, simply by virtue of where they happen to live. They’re demanding options, and for once, legislators are starting to listen.
It usually takes government at least a couple of decades to catch on to what people actually want, and even then it usually responds by doing the opposite. But this time, it looks like decades of school choice activism is finally starting to pay off, with groundbreaking school choice programs starting to pop up around the country.
Read the rest at Watchdog.org here.