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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
In a real, non-anonymous discussion, I would be pointing out that the failure of inner-city schools is a bullshit crocodile tears tactic. The solution for those schools is to redistribute the high-quality teaching staff of white suburban schools, which is never. Gonna. Happen. Every President since W has espoused school choice as the solution to failing schools. We already have school choice; it's just limited to the teaching staff, and look what happens -- the schools with the most brown kids fail and their parents don't avail themselves of "the options."
Choice is bullshit. I'm calling P on the bullshit that is the opposite of choice -- "Waaah, I bought a house in this neighborhood and it was the best house I could afford and the schools still aren't good enough." Sounds to me like you optimized for the wrong variable, and now you want to compare your plight with an inner-city family's? 'Cause otherwise, you're make an argument that "public schools" suck because somebody else's school does, which is a bit like saying cars are shitty because some people are still driving beaters.
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Having made the wrong choice, and bought the big colonial in the 'burb with "good schools", I'm now making the right choice, and buying somewhere where I can support mediocre public schools in their drive to get better while sending my kids to private schools. Private Schools that offer generous scholarships for a sizable portion of the class to kids who'd otherwise be stuck in mediocre public schools. It's a win all the way around.
