[quote=CA renter]Parents DO have all of these options now, and most of them are funded publicly (including homeschooling, if one chooses to go that way). Teachers and their unions are not opposed to choice. They are opposed to having public money going toward private enterprises that are often not held to the same standards as public schools. Again, the right to a public education means that students have a right to an education at a public institution; it does NOT mean being able to use public money for whatever you want to do with it.[/quote]This is exactly why I have beef with the public school teachers’ union. CAR, we’ll just have to agree to disagree here. I think all parents should be able to choose how their kids are educated, regardless of private or public. We don’t need to draw such a line for education. As long as it’s a good education for the same money. You and the teachers’ union obvious do want to draw that line, so we’ll just leave it here.