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The idea that 'choice' in the academic environment is an ideal supported widely and strongly and at the discretion of the consumer who chooses a school all across America. That is, if you make it as far as higher level education anyway. That is, if you happen to live in the right zip code and the right teachers happen to be there to inspire you and make sure you make the grade. But for college, all you need is a grant and you can apply it to a college of your choice. Why not allow this at the elementary level~where it makes so great a difference to whether or not a child will actually make further?!

There's a great deal of debate out there that says that because people are poor, they cannot reach higher education~they even say that those people are culturally unable to achieve it. However, I suggest that many, given the opportunity, can and do achieve academic excellence. That is not to say ALL, but many CAN. Parents can and will choose the very best alternative for their child~when in fact they have an alternative. Choice, in the academic environment raises the level of public educational offerings~it does NOT destroy it. It provides liberation tfrom poverty and future promise~where it exists, anyway. There are plenty of studies that actually prove this.

Now, we need to acknowledge that not only does SCHOOL CHOICE improve academic achievement, but that all parents have the right to choose the best educational alternatives for their child. "The Voice for School Choice" points to this Feb. 4th Opinion in the New York Sun that supports that not only is choice legal, but logical and just.