(Guest post by Greg Forster)
This morning, Pajamas Media carries my column on the upside of the political picture for school choice:
Some people think it’s been all bad news for school choice this year. Well, it’s all bad news if you follow the standard procedure of only paying attention to the bad news. But last month, the movement scored a big win: Indiana enacted a $2.5 million choice program, the state’s first. And if you take a broader view, you’ll see there was other good news for school choice along with the bad in the 2009 legislative season.
This is important because we’ve seen some people occasionally seize on any piece of bad news as an excuse to declare vouchers politically dead. It’s an easy way to avoid taking a stand on the issue, and in some of the more egomaniacal cases, to show the world how amazingly cool and above it all you are.
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Why not take an even broader view, Greg, and advocate for ending all state involvement in education. Home schooling would be a much better way to go. With vouchers the state is still engaging in confiscation in order to fund the vouchers and the state is still regulating the education of children. And vouchers can also work to weaken the demand for private schooling, which is why many libertarians oppose vouchers. With vouchers, we are still just choosing what the state has to offer instead of what the market has to offer. I’ll go with the market every time.