Scholarship Lottery

In “This Lottery Only Has Winners, Supporters Say” (March 17), about the lottery for low-income students to obtain scholarships to private schools, you cite sponsor Teddy Forstmann’s belief that a free marketplace for education will benefit children. “I’m in favor of anything that increases quality through competition,” he said.

In the marketplace, however, success too often comes to those who sell cheap goods cheaply. Those who stake their future on quality fail because they cannot compete with shoddy goods at low prices. Our children--indeed, our nation’s future--will be destroyed by such competition.

DAVID E. ROSS

Oak Park