[WS:] Yup. Case in point - a story that I heard from a reliable source. Two yuppie parents asked the school district to place their adopted from abroad son in a "residential setting" (a code word for a lockup for kids with severe mental or emotional problems.) The school district refused on the grounds that this was not warranted - the kid might have been not the sharpest knife in the drawer but normal and with no signs of serious behavioral problems. The yuppie parents initially threatened a lawsuit but later - very likely on an advice of their sleazy lawyer - decided to "unadopt" the kid an make him a ward of the state.
It is quite obvious that the push for school reform comes, in a large part, from the parents who treat education as a credentialing service selling passes to successful yuppie careers.
Wojtek
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:50:32 -0400
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>>
>> > The elites send their kids to institutions
>> > which are just as totalizing and dehumanizing
>> > as the KIPP schools; but the grounds look
>> > nicer, and so do the teachers and the kids
>> > themselves
>>
>> That's preposterous. I know you love to be contrarian, but that's just around the bend.
>
> Give it a few years, mon copain, and let's talk. I'll be
> interested to hear your experiences. Depends a lot on your
> kid. If he turns out to be the sort of kid the elite schools
> like, it'll all be smooth sailing. If not... well, let's hope
> he is.
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