| We hear too often that we need to allow children in failing schools to switch to a better performing school. While that is nice and I fully agree, we need to stay focused on the big issue. That issue is parental rights. |  |
 | Often a school has to be failing for so many years before a school choice plan will take effect. Should those failing years be wasted? What if the school is right on the edge of failing and the option never takes effect? |
The What IfsWhat if a good school is failing your child? What if the learning style of your child just does not match the teacher in that school and a proven successful model for your child type is at another school. What if you just do not like the worldview in which the teacher teaches. What if your child is academically far above the average of the class and the teacher has to teach to the average, thus not challenging advanced students. The same applies to those struggling; many students are left behind so as not to delay the entire class. |  |
 | School choice should always be about parental rights, liberty, and free enterprise. School choice is about getting rid of the oppression of socialism. School choice is about the benefits of people competing to develop the best education models. School choice is about parents inculcating religious values. School choice is about the government not mandating academic education be taught in a secular environment. School choice is about not allowing special interest to force their interest on all children. |
| Parents place a high value on their child’s character development. When asked to list the top three factors that influenced their decision to have their child attend their chosen school, the only factors to be selected by a majority of scholarship parents were religious environment/ instruction (66%) and morals/ character/ values instruction (52%). |  |
