Many criticisms have been aimed at school choice programs.
The analogy to business competition within a free-market economy seems deceptive to some observers.
They argue that while a successful business such as Coca-Cola can expand into new markets across the United States and the world, an elementary school has a limited potential for expanding its customer base.
Rather than expanding, an outstanding school will become ever more selective as parents compete to enroll their children. Most charter schools it")New Jersey are so oversubscribed they use a lottery to select their students.
There is concern, too, about the state of public schools whose most motivated students are skimmed off by school choice programs.
They are often left with disproportionately high numbers of poorly motivated students and students with severe learning difficulties.