Originally Posted by blackcat
Personally I think this whole plan is just a nail in the coffin for public education. We live in a state where there is a lot of choice, but our district is spiraling downhill because they cannot "capture" the students who live here and enrollment keeps decreasing. Now they are closing school buildings and want to bus kids long distances to get to the half empty schools.
Capture? If parents don't want to send their children to the neighborhood public school, there is a reason. A business that cannot survive without a monopoly deserves to go out of business.