Why Do People Not Feel School Choice Is Positive

Anti- school choice advocates strongly fight that it is not about parents' right but about government's interference in parents' exercising such rights. They also believed that the programs and policies on the school choice are granted with discrimination against those public schools which fail in their standards due to reasons other than internal policies and practices. They say that the school choice actually is a school choice for some or a school choice which overtly tempts parents with attractive packages and trimmings at the expense of the public school system especially those which are performing less.

Opponents claim that programs supporting school choice are actually seen as string attachments that without these advantages or benefits, such school would not be admitting students from economically difficult situation. Because of this policy, schools qualified under the school of choice have these privileges, hence, having more than the adequate support to excel better not only in the curriculum but improving more their facilities and enhancing the growth of their human resource - students and personnel.

Parents who are not informed well and do not have access to the right information about schools involved are actually exercising their right of choice negatively. There are parents who do not know how to compare and contrast in their evaluation of schools and their ability to make the right decision is crippled. There are also parents who seemed apathetic and they are not taking advantage of their right to choose the best school for their children that the tendency to pick the wrong institute is heightened.

With the type of parents who are not endowed with critical thinking and who tend to commit errors in their decisions, the public school system actually is being supported by the school of choice and government to be lame in their management, amenities and services. These are sufficient reasons for parents to refrain from sending their children to public schools.

Some parents have this notion that public schools are crowded, and cannot maintain their standards in all aspects from curriculum to operations to teachers and staff. Since these schools are overpopulated there are more problems to be encountered by the students as they study there.

Supporters of the anti-school choice are also making noise that rendering vouchers to private educational establishments and including religious school to be beneficiaries of government funds are violating the First Amendment.

Elected policy makers and legislators are given a wide window to play politics as they can manipulate the inclusion of schools in areas where they have either strong or weak bailiwicks with the objective of increasing warm bodies to their prospective voting populace. It is actually a fishing expedition for them to increase their chances of strengthening their political supporters.

Most ardent adversaries of school of choice view it as a scheme or a cover-up for white parents to take away their white children from public schools. This gives credence to the opponents' claim that the school of choice is actually advocating racial discrimination clothed covertly as a corrective measure against discrimination of all forms.

Oppositionists such as public school-based labor unions and association or federations of government teachers and employees are protecting their interests too. It would mean that their number of students are dwindling which has an effect on their funds since their source comes from the collection of dues from the parents.

These are the social realities that opponents to the school of choice are loudly stating. Without the proper support accorded to parents and the public school system, the school of choice truly is a discriminatory landmark in the educational system for them. Accordingly, funds to support the public schools are instead used to benefit private, charter or magnet schools. The open competition makes the playing field unfair as well as detrimental in nature to government schools.