Opponents of education choice like to prophesize doom when the subject is raised for debate. Their principal argument seems to be that if alternatives to traditional government schools (e.g. charter schools) are permitted to exist and to compete, they will “rob” those traditional schools of needed funds.
Put aside the fact that this argument admits there is a natural demand for such alternatives. It suggests — if indeed it doesn't say so outright — that certain schools are simply and arbitrarily entitled to a given community's resources, legally privileged to be exempt from competing or improving.
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