[vaadu]

You can't reform a system that is broken by design. The teachers' unions have WAY too much power. More power than parents, which is wrong and corrupts the system. You can see this by comparing money and test scores over the past few decades. More money today and worse results.

Kids/parents should have a choice. Just like we have choices on android or iphone and Purdue or Ohio State. Why should it be different with the k-12 education? If some are religious, so what? Parents can send their kids to a non-religious or trade school or a STEM school.

Parents should have more choice than bureaucrats.

[nojvek]

It's not as simple. Schools in my county are extremely selective even though they don't appear on outside. With arduous processes for application and applications only open for one day that only insiders know, or they extend application links to certain people with plausible denial that it's an open application through their arduous links.

Public schools on the other hand are straight forward. Once we move towards schools deciding who they want, it separates rich from poor students, white from colored students.

I already see it in chartered vs public schools in my county.