Academics Are The Less Visible Enemy of School Choice
Feb 28, 2015 22:22:33 #
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/academics_are_the_less_visible_enemy_of_school_choice.html
Academics Are The Less Visible Enemy of School Choice
Conservative discourse mainly features teachers' unions as the enemy when it comes to school choice, leaving others, like sociologists and other tenured intellectuals, free from public accountability as they exert their substantial influence on education policy. One thing that you should know if you follow school choice issues is that for l*****t academics who oppose school choice, their dogmas take primacy over empirical evidence, and their most fundamental dogma when it comes to school choice is that it promotes racial segregation, and thus thwarts their version of e******y. Racial segregation, as a policy in the United States, saw its end as an achievement of the Civil Rights movement. The Left's cynical appropriation of racial segregation is a red herring intended to obscure their true aim of preventing freedom of association and unregulated innovation and to provide a check on the ambitions of the middle class.
Freely associating peoples, the bane of centralized administrators, spearheaded the school-choice movement with great success and public demand. According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Despite this growth, there is still an overwhelming unmet parental demand for quality school options, with more than 1 million student names on charter school waiting lists. The education of children is a matter of urgency, not of experimental manipulation. Tanzi West of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) shared at the Amplify Choice event I attended this month at the Franklin Center: We believe there is an educational crisis in this country, and nowhere is it more profound than with black children. It is hard to believe that anyone could prioritize long-game social engineering schemes over the immediate life prospects of children who they repeatedly acknowledge as vulnerable, but it is exactly what is happening. As Thomas Sowell says, "Charter schools take power from politicians and bureaucrats, letting parents decide where their children will go to school. That is obviously offensive to those on the Left, who think that our betters should be making our decisions for us." L*****t academics are concerned with keeping the correct concentrations of races in the public school system, more than they are concerned with protecting the rights of families to send their children to better schools. White flight from places like Detroit subvert the Lefts racial composition goals, which are exemplified in such policies as racial enrollment requirements taking precedence over academic performance requirements at magnet schools. Likewise, minority families who seek to give their children better opportunities by enrolling them in charter schools -- which happen to enroll more students of color and from low-income backgrounds--are problematic in their disruption of the Left's race-based allocation of children to schools. These academics resent the fact of self-interest in human decision-making, resent the middle class succeeding, and resent minority families for rejecting their designs in favor of making their own decisions about what is best for their families. Children in failing schools need a decent education -- as Thomas Sowell says, their one shot at a decent life -- more than they need ambiguous diversity. Jason L. Riley writes at length of the frustration of black families with l*****t social architects in his must-read book, Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for B****s to Succeed.
Academics Are The Less Visible Enemy of School Choice
Conservative discourse mainly features teachers' unions as the enemy when it comes to school choice, leaving others, like sociologists and other tenured intellectuals, free from public accountability as they exert their substantial influence on education policy. One thing that you should know if you follow school choice issues is that for l*****t academics who oppose school choice, their dogmas take primacy over empirical evidence, and their most fundamental dogma when it comes to school choice is that it promotes racial segregation, and thus thwarts their version of e******y. Racial segregation, as a policy in the United States, saw its end as an achievement of the Civil Rights movement. The Left's cynical appropriation of racial segregation is a red herring intended to obscure their true aim of preventing freedom of association and unregulated innovation and to provide a check on the ambitions of the middle class.
Freely associating peoples, the bane of centralized administrators, spearheaded the school-choice movement with great success and public demand. According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Despite this growth, there is still an overwhelming unmet parental demand for quality school options, with more than 1 million student names on charter school waiting lists. The education of children is a matter of urgency, not of experimental manipulation. Tanzi West of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) shared at the Amplify Choice event I attended this month at the Franklin Center: We believe there is an educational crisis in this country, and nowhere is it more profound than with black children. It is hard to believe that anyone could prioritize long-game social engineering schemes over the immediate life prospects of children who they repeatedly acknowledge as vulnerable, but it is exactly what is happening. As Thomas Sowell says, "Charter schools take power from politicians and bureaucrats, letting parents decide where their children will go to school. That is obviously offensive to those on the Left, who think that our betters should be making our decisions for us." L*****t academics are concerned with keeping the correct concentrations of races in the public school system, more than they are concerned with protecting the rights of families to send their children to better schools. White flight from places like Detroit subvert the Lefts racial composition goals, which are exemplified in such policies as racial enrollment requirements taking precedence over academic performance requirements at magnet schools. Likewise, minority families who seek to give their children better opportunities by enrolling them in charter schools -- which happen to enroll more students of color and from low-income backgrounds--are problematic in their disruption of the Left's race-based allocation of children to schools. These academics resent the fact of self-interest in human decision-making, resent the middle class succeeding, and resent minority families for rejecting their designs in favor of making their own decisions about what is best for their families. Children in failing schools need a decent education -- as Thomas Sowell says, their one shot at a decent life -- more than they need ambiguous diversity. Jason L. Riley writes at length of the frustration of black families with l*****t social architects in his must-read book, Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for B****s to Succeed.
Mar 1, 2015 09:10:07 #
no propaganda please
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AuntiE wrote:
I like Thomas Sowell's approach to the issue. and the way the article is presented. I think the "progressive" concept is to require that all children conform to the lowest common denominator education, not willing to encourage those who can to excel, on the grounds of the moronic concept of "fairness". By there standards it is not fair that some children have more drive and interest in studying that other students, and some could be outstanding citizens if given the chance. That type of person is not easy to brainwash and therefore to control. The premise is that it makes the less motivated students feel bad and that is h**eful, is really a way of control, not fairness.
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