By james art 
Today he celebrates the week to choose a school, a time when educational freedom advocates emphasize and encourage the value of school choices. Since many parents have been taught in the last few years, it is better to have opportunities than to be stuck, subject to the whims of any institution.
The prerequisite for choosing a school is relatively simple. If your local, traditional K-12 public school serves the needs of your child, great.
But if not, it best serves the interests of parents, students, teachers and communities as a whole for the existence of educational institutions that can help students thrive.
For some, this may be a public charter school that receives control from local or state school councils, but more flexibility is given than traditional K-12 public schools.
For others, this may be a public charter school that specializes in distance learning.
For others, it may still be a private school, secular or religious, regardless of the impact of policy through public school councils.
Some schools may have specialized programs, exposure arts, other sciences, other careers in calculations.
Promoting a school choices is generally to promote the widest possible set of opportunities, because, as everyone knows, children are different, with different needs, interests, strengths and weaknesses.
Here, in California, students, parents and teachers could use a new focus on choosing a school. It must be recognized as the scandal that California has consistently ranked close to the bottom compared to the other 50 states of standardized tests.
It should also be acknowledged that even before the pandemic, only half of the students meet the state’s own standards in the arts in English and even less met them in mathematics. With prolonged closure of school, especially compared to the rest of the nation, students who do not have access to personal education not only missed critical socialization but also survived a loss of training.
In October 2024, CalMatters reported that only 47% of students across the country were in charge or exceeded English art standards, while only 35.5% met or exceeded the state’s mathematical standards. This is from 51% in the arts in English and 39.7% in mathematics in 2019 and of course, the lower income, blacks and Latin American students are lagging even more.
Despite California’s country, spending huge sums of money every year on public education – without a doubt, many of it has lost to the excess administrators and catching up with pension debts – the California education system fails to do what it has to do.
Again, California is more nor -to -do by its own standards and compared to almost every other country in the country.
The unions of high -cost teachers and politicians desperate for their financial and political support are to blame for this disaster.
Choosing a school is a cure for what our education system hurts. That is why teachers’ unions want to crush it. That is why they demonstrated the defenders of the choice of school as “privatizers”. That is why they work so hard and spend so much to choose and re -elevate toadies in school advice and in the legislature up and down the state.
While the Californians do not put students before the interests of the Union, this transvestite will continue.
Students, parents and teachers deserve a school choice.
The version of this editorial was published in 2022.