Document Type
Issue Area Three
Abstract
Few issues arouse more passionate debate in education than school choice. Unfortunately, there is a flash point beyond which passionate debate dissolves into personal argument. When this happens, positions become entrenched and participants become unwilling to consider other perspectives on the issue.
Proponents of religious school choice, and I am one of them, have not promoted a dispassionate consideration of perspectives on this issue. Some of us, especially those who typically "have the mike" in this discussion, choose strategies that distort facts and impugn the competence or motives of public school educators. These strategies create a climate of fear about the performance of public schools, and that is plainly wrong. So, it is true that the comportment of the proponents of school choice leaves much to be desired. But opponents of choice have not typically behaved much better. We both have behaved badly, and we need to tone down the rhetoric and make an honest attempt to understand the other if we are going to resolve this issue.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
2
First Page
104
Last Page
109
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1994 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Cronin, John F.
(1994)
"Honoring the Right to Choose: An Argument for Funding Private Religious School Choice,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 27.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss2/27
