SCHOOL CHOICE: A deceptive strategy
Brent Regan’s Jan. 17 opinion column claimed that American innovation is stalled by an outdated public education system. He declares that public education needs to change in order to better teach innovation. As a monopoly, however, it has no incentive to change and competition would be the best way to improve the system. “School choice will open the marketplace to new ideas, and the best ideas will percolate to the top.”
Mr. Regan asserts that public education is hindering innovation and a free market education would teach new creative ideas. This, however, doesn’t seem to match the conservative claims that public education is too woke and is wrong for excluding God from schools, implying a preference for having less traditional education and more religion in the curriculum. Unfortunately insufficient tax support forces the public school system to struggle in trying to fulfill education expectations. Regardless, public schools have inspired innovation to grow substantially in technology, medicine, transportation, agriculture, and more. It is a flawed assumption that tax supported religious education will somehow increase STEM related innovations.
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