On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:25 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> ""The entire U.S. school system, from pre-K up, is structured from
> the very start to enable the rich to outcompete the poor," writes
> Michaels, "which is to say, the race is fixed. And the kinds of
> solutions that might actually make a difference -- financing every
> school district equally, abolishing private schools, making high
> quality child care available to every family -- are treated as if
> they were positively un-American."
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee170
>
> So, a guy who doesn't like neo-liberalism is an ardent defender
> of... Liberalism. Ain't he special. does he really think that high
> quality child care for everyone is going to fix the problem of
> inequality? That schools will level the playing field, thereby
> creating equal opportunity and that this is an advance over neo-
> liberalism?
Huh? Education is one of the mechanisms that reproduce class and structural inequality. How is it "liberal" to point this out?