School choice – ‘If you build it, he will come’
GUEST COLUMN, David Dorsey, Kansas Policy Institute
In the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (played wonderfully understated by Kevin Costner) hears a voice say, “If you build it, he will come.” (It is often misquoted as “they will come.”) Unless you’ve been out to lunch for the past 3½ decades, you understand the reference.
Parents who are taking advantage of new and expanded school choice initiatives are having their own Field of Dreams experience. People are scurrying to school choice options like Swifties clamor for tickets to a Taylor Swift concert.
