A term most readers have heard often in the past eight months—“unprecedented”—has been used to describe the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on global society, economy, politics and nearly everything of life. The landscape of education did not escape and its profile is also impacted by these COVID-19 dynamics—on the one hand forcing parents and students out of their comfort zones, routines, and preferences, and on the other, ushering in a new genre of school choice.

Choice is a good thing … until it isn’t. Many parents would attest that giving their child a choice between options, develops in their growing child a sense of independence and self-advocacy.  That is what the landscape of school choice has been for parents for over half a century. See Diane Ravitch, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” 114, (2010). A playground of options, contemporary considerations surrounding school choice offer parents the choice of enrolling their child in public schools, “brick and mortar charter schools,” private schools, parochial schools, “cyber charter schools” and homeschooling. School choice is most often about taxpayer-funded schools versus diversion of those taxes to other options versus parent-paid tuition versus vouchers. School choice has, for a long while, been about politics, religion and exposure to culture.

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