Right: One error (a big one, I'll grant you, and one I never agreed with): Whole language reading teaching, and therefore that means that public school teachers don't know how to instruct children. Good grief what a lame non-sequitur. Curriculum decisions are usually made by school boards.
Of course people will move to better schools if t…
Right: One error (a big one, I'll grant you, and one I never agreed with): Whole language reading teaching, and therefore that means that public school teachers don't know how to instruct children. Good grief what a lame non-sequitur. Curriculum decisions are usually made by school boards.
Of course people will move to better schools if they can afford it! What else are you going to spend your money on before getting good schools for your kids, good food for them, and security? More lattes at Starbucks? You can try to force people to not do this; but that will not work.
All public institutions are inherently political. No kidding. Does he propose to abolish compulsory attendance? Or political control of schools?
His subtitle: "How most American kids are kept out of the best public schools" No kidding? If there are fewer than half of schools that are considered "the best" (and that seems to be by definition -- how could "the best" constitute more than half of the sample?) then "most" kids won't be going to them. It's arithmetic. Good luck changing that.
Right: One error (a big one, I'll grant you, and one I never agreed with): Whole language reading teaching, and therefore that means that public school teachers don't know how to instruct children. Good grief what a lame non-sequitur. Curriculum decisions are usually made by school boards.
Of course people will move to better schools if they can afford it! What else are you going to spend your money on before getting good schools for your kids, good food for them, and security? More lattes at Starbucks? You can try to force people to not do this; but that will not work.
All public institutions are inherently political. No kidding. Does he propose to abolish compulsory attendance? Or political control of schools?
His subtitle: "How most American kids are kept out of the best public schools" No kidding? If there are fewer than half of schools that are considered "the best" (and that seems to be by definition -- how could "the best" constitute more than half of the sample?) then "most" kids won't be going to them. It's arithmetic. Good luck changing that.