School "Choice" / Hotel "Choice"

From RH Jones, July 12, 2007
Subject: School "Choice" / Hotel "Choice"

To all:

Here is the Page A10, Akron Beacon Journal, "Letter to the Editor" by Mark Wisberger that I referred to yesterday, 07/11/07:

Brennan only values choice some of the time

Is it just me, or does anyone else see the irony in David Brennan's statement, referring to the closing of the Crowne Plaza (``Officials worry over loss of hotel,'' Beacon Journal, June 19), his only rival in downtown lodgings, that ``we should be able to easily accommodate whatever market need there is.'' For someone who has made millions on the concept of choice when it comes to public schools, he suddenly has no problem with a monopoly.

Maybe people would like to have a choice of hotels when they come to town.

The Akron Public Schools and all the other public districts could also "easily accommodate whatever market need there is.'' But according to Brennan, people deserve a choice in educating their young.

Someone should open a new hotel in downtown Akron and ask Brennan to subsidize the mortgage payments from his hotel, like he gets from all public schools that have to subsidize his schools. Wouldn't that be fair?

Come on, Mr. Brennan. People deserve a choice in where they stay, and it is only fair you pay for them to stay at your competition. It's what you expect from public schools, right?

We could call it charter hotel.

RHJones, CORE member