I ran across this article a couple of years ago and just now found it again. It's an interesting argument for vouchers and more flexibility in our public school systems. This fifth-grade teacher asks:
"Are happy, productive, educated, rational children a source of joy for you? They are for me; that is why I became a schoolteacher. But, my experience in the public schools has awakened in me a profound frustration — and deep sorrow — at how the needs of children are, in policy and on principle, last on the agenda of many politicized school boards and distant state educational bureaucracies."
This teacher-author chose to remain anonymous, for reasons that any teacher coming to TTN can probably appreciate. But what especially struck me was his vision of how
"...for every family that would place their child into a voucher school a
seat would open up in the suffocating, packed public schools. Fewer children in my classroom would mean that I would have more time to spend with each student."
seat would open up in the suffocating, packed public schools. Fewer children in my classroom would mean that I would have more time to spend with each student."
Those of us in the Clark County School District can certainly appreciate that possibility....
The Friedman Foundation published this article in their magazine, School Choice Advocate.
