Topic > Vouchers and School Choice: Opportunities for Success

School Choice: Opportunities for Success For some parents, education is highly valued and they can afford high tuition, so they send their children to a private school. Other parents spend more money to move to a community where there are good schools. We can call the above situations “school choice”. However, what we are talking about here is not “school choice”; there is another type of school choice, which all parents can make and do not need to spend more money to move to another community. In general, children from high-SES families have better opportunities to receive an adequate education and succeed in society. On the other hand, children from low-SES families often face many difficulties in the educational process due to financial problems and may receive less support from their families. Therefore, in my opinion, this is the group that the government needs to take care of. We need to provide children from low-SES families with as many opportunities as possible to help them succeed in school and in society. One of the opportunities we can offer these children is school choice. Some people argue that they pay high taxes to provide a quality education for their children, while others have no right to share it. If we follow systems thinking, this belief is a mistake because we cannot separate one from the other in a system. In the long term, school choice can create success for children from low-SES families. In other words, if we can help these children succeed in school and in society, they will create fewer problems for society and we can build a better environment for everyone. Furthermore, even if people pay high taxes, they still share the limited resources of society and the country; they don't pay everything they should pay. There are rich and poor in society, and somehow this creates positive and negative cycles. That is, rich people can get a better education and have good opportunities to succeed in society.