[Arlo asked] Can you name me any one other thing the free market provides that gives the same quality to the poor as to the rich?
[Platt] The internet. [Arlo] The poor have the quality of access to the Internet as the rich? [Arlo had asked] But tell me I am wrong, Platt, tell me you don't think the problem is "the black element". Tell me why YOU think our public schools are failing while the public schools in Japan and Finland are so successful? [Platt] Oh, oh. Now comes the personal attack. Time to end this conservation. [Arlo] Convenient. But expected. If you want to try answering the question, I'll wait... To recap. We had this conversation before. When I mentioned the success of the Japanese public schools, you said it was because they were, and I quote, "monocultural". [Indeed, when I look at my archives, your answer as to the success of Japan's public schoos was "they have a monocultural population"] Above, when confronted again with the astonishing success of PUBLIC education in Japan and Finland, you made the issue "racial" by saying "Why do Jewish and Asian students do better in school than others?" I say its about the social, familial and communal valuing of education. I've given you an example (I could give more) of a school district that is quite successful AND has a large "multicultural" student body, while giving examples of school districts that are "monocultural" and are failing. Tell me why YOU think our public schools are failing while the public schools in Japan and Finland are so successful? But its so much easier to duck and run, pretend you are insulted or call me a Marxist. But you're not fooling me, and I doubt you are fooling anyone else. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
