You are hungry and craving a Caesar salad, with its crispy greens, crunchy croutons, and Parmesan cheese. But you have a problem: There is only one restaurant in town, and it won’t tell you what it is serving until you have paid. Stomach rumbling, you take a chance, plunking down $20 and getting … meatloaf.

This is akin to what happens in education. Families do not have options, and they too often do not know what they will get at their assigned public school: maybe critical race theory, the hot topic of the day that many see as deeming all white children racist, that upsets their stomachs, or maybe a white-washed history that leaves families hungry for more truth.