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Letter: Vouchers offer families a choice

Saturday, Sept. 16, 2000 | 6:29 a.m.

First, it will not be children asking for vouchers. It will be their parents, an important distinction which the education establishment and their supporters often fail to make.

Second, not every parent is going to ask for a voucher. We have experience from countries all over the world that are decades ahead of us in choice in education. In every case the government-run public school system continues to dominate. Why? Because as soon as parents are freed from the monopolistic grip of the educrats the system shapes up, quickly changing from a self-serving bureaucracy to a true education system geared to serving parents and their children.

Would the choice schools necessarily be better for our children? Of course they would. Why? Because they are the schools of choice. All the stakeholders have a vested interest in the success of the children, and failure means you're out of business as opposed to the current monopoly system where failure actually means, by statute, more money.

Vouchers now.

KNIGHT ALLEN

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