[lbo-talk] More "school reform" nonsense

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Wed May 26 09:37:24 PDT 2010



> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>> There a number of possibilities.
>
> Etc.
>
> Well that was a crappy answer. Of course, it was a crappier question
> guaranteed to bring forth a crappy answer. Not sure why you answered
> it. Miles's scenario is equivalent to when people roll out the canard
> that communism will never work because some people are just lazy and
> will refuse to work. It's a toxic conversational technique.

maybe. but here's the thing: 6 years ago or so, I probably would have been on Miles' side. at little more ambivalently than he, but more on his side than not.

I'm not now. Two things happened. I went to work for corporate murika (as opposed for small biz murika) and I read arguments like those put forth by carrol, you, michael smith, etc.

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