A society’s public institutions reflect the strengths and also the faults and sins of the culture they embody. For this reason, America’s public schools that serve over 50 million children in every kind of community will never be perfect. There will be instances of mediocrity and examples of poor school administration and poor teaching. There will be schools stuck in the past and schools where there is sexism and racism—schools where poor children aren’t served up the kind of curriculum that rich children are offered—schools where families persist in segregating their children from others who are “not like them.” We must expose the problems in our schools and surely, as a society, we are obligated to address our schools’ faults and problems.
But something else has happened in America as we have permitted advocates for privatization to capture our national imagination. How did so many come to view public schools…
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