This paper responds to the Bush Administration's opposition to including private schools in systems of subsidized choice, and argues that parental choice among public and private schools will promote tolerance and remedy social conflict. In view of President Bush's endorsement of the benign effects of competition, his insistence on an all-public choice system appears contradictory since it amounts to support for a monopoly over a competitive marketplace. The feasibility of school choice exclusively within the public sector is examined. Necessary mechanisms would include open admissions, transport for disadvantaged students, and a refusal to subsidize unchosen schools or teachers. Such a system does not seem to be under consideration, and the protection of jobs for failed institutions and workers would in any case render it untenable. It is argued that the narrowness of curriculum in an all-public system is offensive to many poor families, whose values it fails to reflect, and that being forced to expose their children to this impoverished and hostile curriculum is a source of deep social resentment. A system that aims to contribute to tolerance and trust among groups will include the choice of private schools and will respect the beliefs and aspirations of low-income and minority parents. (AF)