Dr. John BigganVerified account

“School choice” is a lie. Invest in public schools! #SOTU

Why not give the power to parents instead of forcing them to attend failing schools? Despite mountains of money since the 1950s, our educational results have been steadily declining.

Parents are free to send their children where they want, but tax payers don’t need to be the ones footing the bill.

If the net result is an overall superior educational outcome, why not? Using your logic, taxpayers who never had children shouldn’t be footing the bill for education either. I send my child to private school but still support a local bond measure to increase school funding.

Charter schools, which suck the most out of public schools often produce worse results than their counterparts. Why should we waste money on a bad product? As to private schools, voucher systems like the one under Pence in Indiana led to millions in debt to the state budget.

The data is mixed on that. There are certainly charter schools that are outperforming public ones. Let competition thrive. Give parents the power to choose. Also, why is it that Dem politicians all send their children to private schools? The public system is a failure as is.