How Choice May Kill Public Education « Diane Ravitch's blog
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When people start seeing education as a private commodity that parents buy for their own children — just another personal choice, like whether to buy designer duds or that hot new toy — then we are going to see a taxpayer revolt like we have never seen before, and public-funded ....There's a myth that people have an interest in educating children- which includes the myth that teachers as a whole care about educating children- that isn't based much on what happens in schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog
By dianerav
When people start seeing education as a private commodity that parents buy for their own children — just another personal choice, like whether to buy designer duds or that hot new toy — then we are going to see a taxpayer revolt like we have never seen before, and public-funded ....There's a myth that people have an interest in educating children- which includes the myth that teachers as a whole care about educating children- that isn't based much on what happens in schools.
Diane Ravitch's blog
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