I concur with Roy’s comments in the blog. No surprise, since its a theme that also causes me much worry.

Perhaps the call for regulation of these “choices” is a good thing after all. It may cause some folks to wake up to the impending (and present) danger that Roy discussed. On this score, Milton Friedman could be one of the worst things to happen to freedom in education.

While Uncle Miltie is very clear on the puclic choice aspects of all other government agencies, when it comes to education, he seems blind to the self-serving aspects of this approach to reform (leaving it in the hands of the culprits themselves). Or, if I may attempt to paraphrase Roy, when the Center for the Study of Public Choice moved to George Mason University and the free marketeers in VA, Freidman stayed firmly in Chicago and the Chicago School. And unless Friedman changes his persepctive, the blind belief that all of this is somehow good or (more Chicagoesque?expedient) is likely to dominate and damage the private systems of education that have consistently delivered on their promises. Public education has by contrast done little more than just deliver promises. Isn’t market socialism an oxymoron any more?