There are many examples of how competition in business and science has yielded significant benefits. It can do the same in the field of education.
Using vouchers for parochial/private schools, would (1) assure their survival; (2) allow market-rate wages to be paid in private schools, thus attracting more qualified teachers back into the profession; (3) break the stranglehold of teachers unions and the National Education Association on public education funds; (4) sustain competition between the systems that even now show improved public education based on private school models; (5) give back to parents the means to determine their children’s education; (6) spur the adoption in public schools of professional teaching techniques and standards not currently found; and (7) remove the corrupting tenure device that currently keeps too many unqualified teachers in their jobs.
