Money has been poured into schools for years, and while some buildings may have automatic towel dispensers in their restrooms throughout the facility, the quality of educations has actually decreased. If we take low quality education and continually pour more money into the process, it is essentially giving raises to the schools for poor performance. Imagine a system with school choice and the changes it could bring about. If schools had to have a motive to draw kids in to create a sense of revenue, they would be forced to plan effectively and execute to stay in competition with every other school; just as every other business must do in order to make ends meet. Our teachers are some of the most intelligent and creative minds in the world, and this would only give them more of an opportunity to express their ideas. If schools just conducted frequent meetings to discuss progress, and gave teachers and officials the opportunity to express ideas that would attract certain kids to that individual school it would benefit everyone involved. Not only would teachers be able to further engage in education, but every school would have the opportunity to develop its own personality and atmosphere to reflect its teachers and students. The only individuals that would suffer would be the schools who had no incentive to bring students in and teachers who have no motivation to help kids, and are these the teachers we want to protect? School choice would wipe out our teachers who are only in it for the summers off, and it would provide a pedestal for our educators who go above and beyond by taking advantage of their ability to think outside of the box.
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