More on “When a choice isn’t really a choice”
Earlier we wrote about the situation going on in Richmond over the attempts to approve a charter school that will actually be a real choice for students.
Jim Bacon and Norm Leahy over at Bacon’s Rebellion take a closer look at the situation going on in this series of blog posts.
Jim notes:
As Times-Dispatch columnist Barton Hinkle points out, there are about 4,200 charter schools across the United States. Only three are located in Virginia. Support for vouchers, an even more radical alternative to charter schools, is spreading. Opponents, he suggests aren’t worried that the school might fail — “they’re petrified that it might succeed.” In the words of one school board member, “By allowing this group to proceed, it would open the door for any other group that wants to create a school.”
How sad when the fear of a school succeeding stops us from giving children a chance for a better education.
Is that what we want for Virginia’s students?
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