tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post999627603228311548..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Are Two Tiers the Right Choice?Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-23406829821607479432017-12-04T09:36:59.764-05:002017-12-04T09:36:59.764-05:00America already has a two-tiered system. Rich, Lib...America already has a two-tiered system. Rich, Liberal Elites have excellent private schools. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-53143239163959414582017-12-03T20:07:36.161-05:002017-12-03T20:07:36.161-05:00As a commenter noted, this bill isn't actually...As a commenter noted, this bill isn't actually complete yet. It's going into conference between the senate and the house, which means it will almost certainly be substantially worse.Jordan Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12091776887600950851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-34499583753870112432017-12-02T18:25:07.131-05:002017-12-02T18:25:07.131-05:00Here are a couple of articles that offer some brig...Here are a couple of articles that offer some bright spots:<br /><br />https://www.thenation.com/article/activists-in-philadelphia-have-reclaimed-control-of-the-citys-schools/<br /><br />https://www.thenation.com/article/the-new-sewer-socialists-are-building-an-equitable-internet/Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-10572459835555685252017-12-02T16:29:36.738-05:002017-12-02T16:29:36.738-05:00The problem with politics is every issue becomes &...The problem with politics is every issue becomes "the hill we will die on" and, of course, it never is for either side. Time just keeps moving forward and both good and terrible things happen. People predicted libraries dying out, but the one nearby my house is going stronger than ever.lbwolperthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09789084098827243880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-28938158075277950472017-12-02T14:47:44.375-05:002017-12-02T14:47:44.375-05:00I'm also sure you'll rally. You may just b...I'm also sure you'll rally. You may just be suffering from a sleep deficit, which always makes a person look more at the negative.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-55028118751994715672017-12-02T13:36:11.846-05:002017-12-02T13:36:11.846-05:00Before we all jump off the cliff like lemmings, wh...Before we all jump off the cliff like lemmings, which turns out to be only a slick piece of movie BS that doesn't happen in real life, let us remember that the Senate Bill is not what will take place. The next step is for a conference committee from the House and Senate to work out a compromise bill that both chambers will pass. That doesn't offer much hope, but we are only another step in the legislative process. Perhaps the worst of the worst will be cut out. Politics being the game that is is, Senators can say, I got it in the bill but the House wouldn't go along.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03544213160574214282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-62996339699035088172017-12-02T11:33:36.297-05:002017-12-02T11:33:36.297-05:00Au contraire - trickle down has not failed. It ha...Au contraire - trickle down has not failed. It has worked startlingly well to do what it was designed to do. The people who thought that giving the rich all the money would put more money in their pocket are the same kinds of people who think that giving lost of money to a casino will put more money in their pocket.Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-65784537597040142652017-12-02T09:42:24.288-05:002017-12-02T09:42:24.288-05:00The following paragraph from this piece is an unca...The following paragraph from this piece is an uncannily accurate description of the educational system --- a demonstrably failed system, mind you --- of the country of Chile:<br /><br />"So maybe we do need a two-tiered system of schools in this country. One tier for the wealthy, some nice private schools (complete with vouchers that give yet another kickback of tax dollars to the rich) that prepare them to be future leaders and well-off masters of the universe. And then another tier for those who had the misfortune to be poor and must be prepared to live on the bottom rungs of the ladder, because there is no hope in hell that they will ever get out. Oh, sure, a handful now and then will be found worthy, just to keep the fiction alive that we still have the prospect of upward mobility in this country (and always making sure to include a person or two of color so that it's clear, you know, that we aren't that racist). But mostly they will need the skills and training to survive in America's basement, because if they're born there, they will probably stay there, always living one health problem or bad accident away from financial ruin, never able to afford any education after high school, and condemned to a high school that is either an underfunded public school or a selective and possibly fraudulent charter school, established specifically to help them be more comfortable in their proper place (perhaps delivered through some half-assed software program that maintains their permanent personnel file for the convenience of their corporate overlords). Certainly this is what some people already envision; it's what Betsy DeVos means when she suggests that students should be 'allowed' to go to school in a place that's the 'best fit,' like a snotty rich girl in an 80s comedy looking down her nose at lower class children and saying, 'Dear, wouldn't you be happier somewhere with your own kind?' 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