No Choice
If choice is the only choice is it still choice?
Today we turn to one of the most baffling conundrums of these fiercely urgent days. If school choice is indeed the civil rights issue of our time, why do its chosen beneficiaries so rarely get to exercise any choice about choosing it? Alas reader, we are left with no choice. To the choice mobile, and make it snappy! We’re headed to Camden, New Jersey, where school choice is on its way, whether people there choose to choose it or not.
The people’s choiceOur journey begins just over a year ago with the choice of a new leader to run the Camden Public Schools. Paymon Rouhanifard, nee Goldman Sachs, was the people’s choice. No silly, not the people of Camden themselves, who were given nochoice in the matter thanks to the choice-free combo of a state-appointed superintendent and an appointed school board. I’m talking about the other people—the unlikely coalition of elites, both near and far, who have decided that Camden’s children, long last by almost every conceivable measure of wellbeing, must at last be put first. Or something like that.
A divine choiceStill, the People’s Choice had his work cut out for him. With no formal way for Camden parents to express their choice for the future of the city’s schools, PR had no choice but to No Choice | EduShyster: