First Place: Michelle Heitz School Choice:A Bad Choice in
Education Writing Course in the Elementary Education Major When
one opens a There is evidence that school choice often means the
rich will keep getting richly educated and the poor will keep
getting poorly educated no matter if they are offered a choice
in schooling or not. Across the nation, this disparity among the
wealthy and poor schools is quite evident in the building
structures, classroom materials, teacher education, and
attitudes among different schools. In the article entitled The
Perils of School Vouchers, Robert Lowe (1995) confirms the
inequality among schools by stating that “throwing schools open
to the marketplace will promote neither excellence nor equality
for all. Rather, it will enhance the freedom of the privileged
to pursue their advancement unfettered by obligation to
community” (p. 191). Although the government is promoting school
choice among our nation’s pupils, often there is no choice in
economically deficient areas. What ar