“Education is one of the best weapons against entrenched poverty”
A thoughtful blog post from a Gary, Indiana pastor, who asks, “Should Parents Determine Their Children’s Educational Path?”
He writes:
“Not much seems to raise the ire of our current public school system more than the two simple words “school choice”. This is primarily because these words represent a shift in thinking, which public schools do not seem to want. As long as the approach is unchanged, public schools may continue to fail, spend our tax dollars as they please with little or no accountability. Evidence suggests that the status quo of urban education condemns many of our children to a life of poverty or incarceration.”
He challenges those who oppose choice on the ground that children will fail because parents will not be able to navigate the educational system, citing successful examples of charter schools in his community.
Pastor Dix concludes:
“If we are going to spend tax dollars on educating our young, then it requires us to receive the most return on such an investment. Each parent deserves the fundamental right to invest his or her own tax dollars in a public, charter or private educational institution for the benefit of his or her own child. Forcing economically challenged parents to send their children to failing schools is a sentence to poverty for children and the community.”
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