Controlled choice does not equal freedom in education
The Choice Channel
by R. Lee Wrights
05/03/06
Parents worldwide should reject this notion of 'controlled choice' that is being offered as a symbol of freedom in education. After all, if someone else controls your choices how free can you really be? As a friend of mine observed to me recently, when a gunman accosts you in an alley and says, 'Give me your money or your life,' isn't he offering you a controlled choice? Does controlled choice really represent some sort of freedom? It is not freedom in education when parents are forced to choose between equally bad public schools for their beloved little ones. It is not freedom that parents are forced to pay for failing public schools when they could receive better value from their money being spent on schools in the private sector. True freedom in education would be parents controlling the bureaucrats rather than the bureaucrats controlling parents' choices...
http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/1821
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by R. Lee Wrights
05/03/06
Parents worldwide should reject this notion of 'controlled choice' that is being offered as a symbol of freedom in education. After all, if someone else controls your choices how free can you really be? As a friend of mine observed to me recently, when a gunman accosts you in an alley and says, 'Give me your money or your life,' isn't he offering you a controlled choice? Does controlled choice really represent some sort of freedom? It is not freedom in education when parents are forced to choose between equally bad public schools for their beloved little ones. It is not freedom that parents are forced to pay for failing public schools when they could receive better value from their money being spent on schools in the private sector. True freedom in education would be parents controlling the bureaucrats rather than the bureaucrats controlling parents' choices...
http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/1821
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 4. Mai, 16:24
