Perhaps, it is because we are not the students. The private managers have not been proven effective; even after draining the coffers of the remaining public schools' budgets.
When you have parents lamenting the end of a school year because they expect schools to give their children free breakfast ad lunch, well... Why buy food and cook when I could use that money for hair extensions that take eight hours or more to put in. That is what we're up against. On 6/27/08 9:49 PM, "Anthony West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you're confusing markets with "corporate capitalism" or some > other ideology. Markets are a more basic social creature; most societies > have long had them. Markets begin by noting people are inherently > unequal in complementary ways (farmers have lettuce but no cash; city > folks have cash but no lettuce). By going to the market, you tend to get > the same deal everyone else does. But markets can have both egalitarian > and inegalitarian effects. > > Don't mistake "markets" as a synonym for "private profit". All sorts of > entities are in a marketplace. There is a gigantic market for colleges > and universities, very few of which are for profit. Governments compete > with each other too. Philadelphia competes with Lower Merion, and the > two of them together compete with Metropolitan Atlanta. > > Complaining about the market is like complaining about the weather (aka > "the atmosphere"). Everybody does it, but nobody wants to try living > entirely without it. > > Applying markets to mass education is complicated, but it too has a long > history. Still, schooling has long been seen as a public good. In that > sense, it must be egalitarian: each citizen deserves an equal stake from > society as he or she sets off as a young adult. > > Yet the job of schools is also to sort and grade: measuring inequality. > How can they stop doing so? At the very least, there is passing and > failing. Since schools grade pupils, presumably for their own good, then > it's hard to understand why schools should be harmed by a taste of their > own medicine. > > -- Tony > > >> in general, the idea behind markets is that not everyone is equal, and >> in fact not everyone is supposed to be equal. the idea of markets is >> to cast citizens into the role of unequal competitors; the aim of >> markets is to preserve that inequality. >> >> that's the mud being thrown at public education. >> >> >> >> .................. >> UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN > > ---- > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the > list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see > <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
