[WS:] The school "reform" is intended for public schools, which is used by the middle class and the poor. The "reform" has nothing to do with the students and everything to do with publicly subsidized private profits and breaking teachers unions. And as far as I can tell, a majority of the US public loves to bash public schools and teachers unions, and they see the "reform" in a similar way the medieval paupers saw public executions of petty thieves - it did not matter that it could be them next time, but this time it was an opportunity to kick someone else's ass and feel good about it.
Many of those middle and lower income parents think that the school 'reform" will give them an opportunity to send their kids to private or quasi-private schools, just as the elites do. With the exception of a few bleeding heart liberals, they do not give a flying fuck about public education other than seeing is a a tax "burden."
This is based on my unscientific observations, but I doubt that a ''scientific" survey can ever show this. Most people are to smart to look like spiteful bigots in front of survey takers or reporters.
Wojtek
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
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>> 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.
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> No it doesn't. Where did you get this from? School "reform" is intended mainly for the children of the poor. The point of the comparison is that children of the elite are subject to none of that crap - and even in better suburban districts, like Arne Duncan's Arlington County.
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