Anthony West wrote:
Ray, please. It's not "my original" market approach we're talking about;
it's both the law of the land and an inevitability of human society,
that market forces play a role in education as they do in so many other
walks of life. They never have been absent from the field of education
and they cannot be made to go away from it.
Markets don't, in themselves, maintain inequalities. Segregationists who
argue people of different classes should never live side by side,
because that can only harm the lower classes -- they do maintain
inequalities, don't they? I don't share their views.
We have fundamentally different interests in this discussion. I am
interested in the real challenges and choices facing urban education,
because I have a kid in the system and that makes me think about the
subject more than I otherwise might. You are looking for occasions to
complain about Penn and capitalism, as usual (two obviously allied, but
somewhat distinct, critters). Outcomes don't matter to you; only
judgements matter. Always the same judgement, too.
I'll leave you to your pet judgement. I'll continue to comment on the
real challenges and choices. Urban education in Philadelphia is at a
crossroads. Wherever it is headed next, one thing's for sure: it's not
going back to that "egalitarian" quagmire of guaranteed low expectations
for every child, especially when he's a child of color.
the solution to your school choice problem is simple: sell
your house and move out of the catchment area. why limit
your options now that your son has graduated to high school?
instead of freaking out about the system and the egalitarian
quagmire, shop around! it's outcomes that matter -- and
besides, only segregationists, not markets, maintain
inequalities.
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