School Choice Dinner Party
Pairagraph is a website set up around the idea of conversations, or debates, around a particular question. The website organizers invite a pair of people to address the question in turn for a total of four posts of no more than 500 words each. It's a fun little concept that has, so far, been applied to a broad range of topics.
I was recently invited to join in one of these pairings around the question "Is school choice essential to educational justice." My counterpart was Terry Stoops of the John Locke Foundation (North Carolina’s Most Trusted and Influential Source of Common Sense). I had the second and fourth positions in the debate.
Here's what I posted for my first response.
Imagine that you have a dining room with three tables set up. At one is a great feast, with the finest meats and vegetables, beautifully cooked. At another is a good, solid, if not spectacular, spread of hearty, wholesome food. At the third is bread and water.
Folks are assigned to one of the three tables to eat, but the assignment seems unfair, so one of the people enters the dining room and sets up a fourth table. This person takes a few chairs and some food from each of the other tables for their Table #4, and announces, "We will now have choice."
But there is the same number of chairs, the same amount of food, and the same range of quality. The same number of diners will eat bread and water.
Mr. Stoops has made an excellent case against the CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: School Choice Dinner Party
But there is the same number of chairs, the same amount of food, and the same range of quality. The same number of diners will eat bread and water.
Mr. Stoops has made an excellent case against the CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: School Choice Dinner Party
