As a woman critic of the system I have just got to reply to this (even though I already have addressed this issue - it seems my post didn't "take"). I just loved Trainor's characterization of having to fight the system like a wounded lion to get an adequate education for one's kids. At Lake Harriet, Lynne's model school (a perfect model of segregation along class and racial lines) no amount fighting was enough for us - we had to give up. I was joking the other day that since we put our son in a parochial school, my "parental involvement" was a fraction of what it had been at Lake Harriet. And they spend about half on their students (my husband would know the exact figure) that the public schools spend. Is it possible that equality of opportunity actually costs less than discrimination?
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