A Kansas paper, The Hays Daily News, discusses why Kansas should have choice and how it would increase accountability. As a taxpayer, wouldn't it be nice to know that your money is being used well. Some opponents are convinced that school choice would decrease the school's accountability, but since when are the schools accountable without choice? Even in public non-school choice areas, fraud, mismanagement, and ineffective teaching persists. When a parent makes the decision of where their child attends school, they are holding a school accountable for inadequate education if they decide to leave. A parent, in most situations, will know best about their child and where they would succeed. Why should one's location determine if they are given a great education, an adequate education, or a horrible education?
When they have no choice, that school is not held accountable because they will continue to get the money for retaining that child. When the schools become affected by these, they will have no choice but to improve.
Consumer sovereignty, individual freedom, and dispersal of power are values that Americans take seriously. We experience them in many other aspects of our lives, but not in education. Education is so important; as the stepping ladder to the rest of one's life.
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