Corey DeAngelis

School choice has never destroyed public schools.

If anything, it's made them better through competitive pressures.

And I've actually seen some evidence

And I wrote about this in a piece actually all the way back in 2018 in the Washington Examiner called School Choice Benefits Teachers Too.

The limited evidence on the topic shows – and I did one of these studies myself, but there's about five of them – that show that more competition from school choice leads to higher teacher salaries in the public schools.

so we already knew the test scores improve in the public schools but the teachers actually benefit too because instead of money spending that money in ridiculous ways having to go to superintendents who make more than the president of the united states they actually spend it wisely on an important educational resource which is

the teacher.

And one last thing I'll point out is that in the Washington Post, which they've taken a good change lately, they've kind of had new leadership, I think, and they have some more free market kind of articles coming out in the Washington Post.

But at the time during COVID, it was a kind of a broken clock strikes twice a day kind of thing where they had an article highlighting the story of a New Jersey public school teacher who had been in the system for decades and

and she started her own micro school which they were calling pandemic pods at the time basically 10 students get together in the household of the teacher and they economize on the process of homeschooling you make it easier for parents and the teacher was making the same amount she was making after being in the new jersey school system for decades which

They spent a ton of money.

In Camden, they spent over $40,000, I think, a kid in Camden, New Jersey.

Wow.

And so she's making the same amount, even without a school choice program and the money following the child, parents voluntarily paying out of pocket just 10 kids as opposed to 30, 40 kids in the school system, having more flexibility and freedom, not having to deal with the curriculum mandates from the state.

And they highlighted this story and said, this is so great for these teachers, right?

but they didn't take the next logical step, which is, well, shouldn't other teachers be able to do this too?

Shouldn't more families be able to do this too?

The best way to do that is to take that 40 grand and maybe give parents at least half, about 20,000.

We'll save some taxpayer money while we're at it, and parents will still be better off.

You think about that, 20,000 times 10 or 12 kids.