Anybody send their kids to private school ? Would you if you could ? Would you feel guilty if you did ? If you do, is there any guilt for doing so ?
According to Allison Benedikt at Slate , people who send their kids to private school are "bad people". Her words, not mine. According to her EVERYBODY should send their kids to public school no matter how lousy and/or dangerous they might be. Not to worry , in a generation or two , thanks to parental support , outrage , pressure, involvement etc. the public schools will all be great. This from a woman who admits that in four years of high school she read exactly one book and self describes herself as culturally illiterate. She's also the same gal who hates her own dog for getting old and sickly.
I'm sorry but I cannot make this stuff up.
Giving the politics, sociology and educational policy stuff a wide berth, was she serious ? Does she write this stuff just to provoke people ? Or do her editors at Slate really think her stuff qualifies as intelligent discourse ?






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