for a person of such a disadvantaged background to find an employer to which he is worth that much. Such people are the victims of bad socioeconomic background and bad schooling, says Friedman.Milton and Rose Friedman have founded the entire movement of School Choice. They believe that public schools are a large part of what is wrong with our society today, and why so many average people are so grossly uneducated. If you have a child, they are herded into the nearest school district, then herded into the nearest overpopulated under-funded public school. This is just another version of the post office, where an establishment has no rival business to live up to, therefore can do whatever it wants and be as sub-par as it wants. And very often parents don't have any other choice except for very pricey private schools. Schools that are run independent from local government bureaucracy provide better education at lower cost. School choice would allow more students to attend better schools. It is a potent educational reform that is far more effective than increased spending. The fears of opponents of school choice are factually unfounded. Through allowing more parental choice in education, school choice forces education into a free market environment, thus creating competition, and thus a desire to improve. If a family is wealthy enough, they can send their children to a private school, however then they are paying twice as much to send their child to private school as well as still paying taxes on public school. What Milton and Rose propose is that any parent who decides to send their child to a private school will receive a scholarship from the government, redeemable for tuition at scholarship-accepting private schools. The scholarship dollar amount is far below that of the average cost per student per year at public schools, but would allow millions of parents who cannot presently afford private tuition to do so. One conflict of the vouche...
