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Love the truth in this Drew

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Ironically, the 'choice' school in your "school choice" example is actually the lazy waitress in your illustration, while the public school is the hard worker getting screwed. Public schools are required to serve every student that walks in the door, regardless of academic aptitude, learning disabilities, physical handicaps or behavioral and emotional issues. Private and charter schools can be selective with their applicants. So, not only does the public school have to work harder for the same money per pupil, but the high-achieving students siphoned off by the for-profits bump up the test scores, which rewards the school with more funding, and punishes the "under performing" ones, i.e. the ones that need it most. So, they play by different rules, have different demands put on them and get paid the same per student. School choice rewards less effort, then, perversely, casts the unfair advantage as 'merit.' I wonder if you just stumbled on a bad example for your argument, or your general argument lacks merit itself.

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