Louisiana's Bobby Jindal rings the alarm concerning President Obama's recent opposition to school choice in this article from the Washington Post:

Drop the Suit Opposing School Choice

Jindal misses something important because it is so much an underlying presupposition that he can't see it. Of course, there is a problem when President Obama opposing better schools for poor children. The President is (as Jindal rightly points out) taking King's dream away from people. He is, of course, actually using the power of the federal government to oppose the power of the people because of the interest of the teacher's union.

Jindal misses something important, however, he misses that this whole thing is a work around because no one is able or willing to make the schools in these communities good. Our answer is to run away because we do not have the ability to stand and fight. The problem is that that schools in a community should be replaceable when they fail...and these schools are failing. If a business was failing at the rate of these schools, it would be bankrupt a hundred times over. Sadly, when public schools fail, we push in more money (thinking that this will solve the problem). It has not yet. It will not. Not ever. Money does not give an education. Love teaches.

For the sake of the children, we must get this right. We need to give these children an opportunity. Ironically, we can only give them an education when we are ready to let their schools fail....or to admit that they already have.