[Baltimore Sun] Private school funding no panacea for education | READER COMMENTARY
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I’m sure Claudia Nachtigal’s students at the Highlands School receive a quality education tailored to their needs. However, her argument that we should adopt for-profit educational institutions on a more widespread basis based on “freedom of choice” is somewhat specious (“Maryland parents should be able to choose where to send their kids to school,” Oct. 31).
The greater public interest dictates that we have limited choice of roads we travel on, the military, police and firefighters who protect us, and the hospitals where we’re born and die. Similarly, there’s little choice in who keeps our food and drugs safe or where our a energy comes from and where our waste goes.
Nobody argues that private educational institutions don’t have a place in our communities. However, any additional public funding toward for-profit schools will make it harder to achieve the ambitious goals of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.
— Eric Greene, Annapolis
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