Remedial Class Struggle

[Brad De Long]

Re:
>
>It's from a conversation I had with Heather McDonald... According to my
>notes, she said, "The upside of [budget] cuts might be that it forces the
>system to provide a college education rather than a high school education.
>People have been coming to CUNY who don't have the background to
>take advantage of a college education ... It would be a shame if qualified
>students found themselves unable to get an education, but on the other
>hand if unqualified students weren't able to go to college that would be a
>good thing--it would force high schools to work harder...
>
>Josh

Or as Vladimir Lenin used to say, "the worse, the better."

Never struck me as one of Lenin's brighter lights on humanity's tree of
good ideas...

Brad DeLong