Did Jeb Bush's Speech Made Sour Milk?

Jeb Bush gave a speech at the Republican National Convention last night and, finally, Florida's powerful former governor made the case for "choice" in public schools:  

"Everywhere in our lives, we get a chance to choose. Go down in the supermarket aisle and you will find an incredible selection of milk. You can get whole milk, buttermilk, 2 percent milk, low-fat milk, or skim milk, organic milk, and milk with extra Vitamin D. There's flavored milk: chocolate, strawberry or vanilla. And it doesn't even taste like milk. They even make milk for people who cannot drink milk. So, my question to you is, shouldn't parents have that kind of choice in schools that best meets the needs of their students?" 

Yet most supporters of public education fail to recognize or even address the fact that public schools are funded through taxation (which is theft if involuntary) on productive members of society.

Doesn't "choice" help steer business toward privately owned charter schools while leaving struggling schools without their best students and, thus, worse off? Bush brought out a former student during his speech, who talked about being able to leave the Miami inner city school he was attending. "Thanks to Governor Bush's school choice program, I got the chance to choose a better school."  

It seems that preventing choice has not led to anything more productive than private education, which is at least driven by need to perform well to be sustained (natural market forces), where public schools can have a history of failure yet continue to provide lower-quality services and high costs.

Right, but what about the kids who don't take that chance? Where's their help? And while Bush cites several statistics showing testing gains for lower-income, African-American and disabled students, he does not mention that passing grades have been lowered by Florida's education board to account for decreasing scores.

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