Magda Gomez spent her Friday evening in Riverside, California, at a school fair set up at a church where about 300 families learned about different options for educating their kids: charter schools, private or parochial schools, homeschooling, public schools beyond their traditional neighborhood school and even so-called learning pods.
“We have here all of these choices,” Gomez said in an interview, comparing the school choice options in America with the lack of choice in Mexico, where she grew up. She homeschooled her two daughters at first instead of sending them to a nearby Santa Ana, California, public school for seven years, until the girls chose to attend public high schools, she said, to give them a “better education.”
