it will now go to the real supreme court

I have only voted for one elected official in my life that I wanted to recant my vote after it was cast, and our governor is the one.

Why is it so disastrous to give parents in terrible schools a choice to get their kids out of those schools?

@Billy J - because, well, um.......nope - got nothing either. ;p

Why do you think those schools are terrible to start with Billy J? Look at the list of failing schools and tell me what they have in common. When they move those students into your school it will become a failing school also. Kids fail, people underachieve that is just life. You can't pass a stupid law that will magically make kids pass tests and come to school.I wanted to do something else in life, but couldn't cut it in that professional field. Nobody passed a law that kept me in school. I found another career path and have become successful. You can't mandate intelligence no matter how hard you try. There will always be kids who fail and people who are not so smart. That's what you get when you have to lawfully educate everyone from the age of 5 through 18. People are different with different attainable educational levels. Whether it is due to socioeconomics, lack of parental involvement or low personal drive. Arthur Orr wrote and passed a law that requires students wait until their 17th birthday before they can legally quit school in the hopes that it would help the dropout rate. Guess what? It hasn't helped much if any. It sounds good in theory and makes people feel good about themselves, but kids that want to dropout, dropout. This is a dumb state by comparison to other states, but it has always been a dumb state. No law is gonna change that. Only parents that put a value on education will. Certain segments of our population do not believe this statement, so it will never really change no matter what any Democrat or Republican gets passed.