School Choice

Never understood the argument that school choice would be the death of public schools. If that were true wouldn't that mean that if parents were given a choice - none would send their kids willingly to public schools? Isn't that indictment on the quality of the education? Wouldn't competition force the public schools to improve their game and insure a better quality of teachers?

I've already said I'm for school choice. You don't have to sell it to me. (Meme via)

Morning Links

Some stuff I found interesting.

- Interview with Mike Lowell who brings up the interesting point that a HGH test that was 99% accurate would still lead to 7 false positives among major league players.

- It really looks like a shake-down attempt on Randy Moss. I hope his attorneys go on the counter-offensive and go after this seemingly slimeball attorney.

- Interesting look at school choice and where it stands in the country. I had not considered how the closing of Catholic schools due to the cash crunch caused by the priest sex scandals had harmed school vouchers before. Long article but very informative.

- Interesting look at the people who set the Vegas lines and their thoughts on the BCS:

“We laugh a little,” White says. “You just have to make a line on Hawaii and Georgia. The whole time you’re thinking, why are these two teams playing?”