MYTHS ABOUT SCHOOL CHOICE

Public-school teacher unions and other opponents of school choice have repeated certain falsehoods over and over to discourage the adoption of a competitive educational system.

One claim is that allowing parents to choose their children's schools would result in racial segregation. Hard evidence

There is also compelling evidence that some kinds of non-government schools create a healthier racial environment than do public schools. When the Manhattan Institute's Jay Greene compared the lunchroom behavior of students in public and parochial schools, he found that blacks and whites in the latter were much more likely to sit together and genuinely enjoy each others' company. The reason, Greene found, is that children attending religious schools are attracted to each other by interests and beliefs, not skin color.