The Florida Supreme Court recently ruled that where the state constitution says, "uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools that allows students to obtain a high quality education", the key word is uniform. I guess uniform is listed first.
The effect of this ruling is to send 733 children from quality private schools to failing public shools (in most cases). George Will takes this ruling down here.
The title of this post, I believe, is really well put. Striving for uniformity is not what this country should be about. However, all of us being taught the same things in public schools is exactly what we seem to be doing. At least there are 50 different state education systems. But, with the Federal government increasingly getting involved with education, those 50 systems will get increasingly similar. Then we will have uniformity, but, probably not quality. This is a case of misplaced priorities; uniformity over quality.
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