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Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil
theodp writes "Slate's Allison Benedikt is ruffling some feathers with her recent manifesto, If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person. 'Not bad like murderer bad,' Benedikt writes, 'but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation's-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what's-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad.' If your local school stinks and you send your child there, Benedikt explains, 'I bet you are going to do everything within your power to make it better.'"
The American right wing is just pro-corporate and pro ruling class. They exist to support and expand the power of the 1%. Everything else is just window dressing for the rubes.
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"private schools' quality is driven by market forces "
Not quite. Market forces simply cannot operate effectively in an education environment. Private school is really about screening rich from poor, high class/good behavior people from low class/bad behavior people.
It's all about getting away from other people you deem in some way culturally/behaviorally/intellectually inferior. Not to mention the right wing attacks on education funding from billionaire lobbyists in the government and elsewhere.
Part of the reason school is so shit is because right wing forces are constantly meddling and sabotaging public schools so then they can take them all private.
Guys like bill gates and Koch are such believers in the market (as I like to call them) they have no problems saying "public schools are so bad" yet not paying taxes and hiring others to sabotage public institutions. The real problem in america is that corporations and money have corrupted every single institution in america to such an extent people are grasping at anything to solve problems. Instead of the difficulty of reigning in corps that pay no tax and going after those moneyed interests who sabotage education and leave public institutions starved for cash.