Education is a recession-proof industry that will always be in high demand, but the rush to privatize it could destroy public schools and take the middle class down with them.
Via Karen Rockhold
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There is nothing easy about trying to boost academic outcomes for poor kids.
Mary Perfitt-Nelson's insight:
“We cannot fix what’s wrong with our schools until we are prepared to have honest conversations about poverty and race,” Lewis said. “Until we do, we will be mired in the no-excuses mentality [that] poverty doesn’t matter. Poverty matters a lot when you are teaching children who are distracted by their lives. Poverty matters a lot when you are teaching children who have seen trauma like none of us in this room can imagine.” Delete the scoop?
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Ahhh. What a conundrum. Part of me wants to jump aboard. The majority of me can't abandon.
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"The public education system itself will no longer be America's great equalizer, churning out successful students from all cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Instead, it will shackle the poor, keeping them from learning the essentials needed to find that great job for the 21st century and move up the economic ladder into the middle class – to achieve the American Dream.
America needs to "just say no" to public funding of private schools."
We could "do it well". But then, what about those left behind. The conundrum...............