Are D.C. area private schools up to the task regarding our globally challenged students?

[Anonymous]

NCLB and a political agenda that is more oriented toward recasting education as a potential profit center for various corporate interests than in helping to raise children who will be competent and (self-)critical citizens. Throw in a consumerist anti-intellectual culture and remove the barriers that confined smart African-American men and women of all races to careers in education without doing anything to make such careers more appealing to talented people with more lucrative options and you've got a recipe for disaster.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand all this "global competitiveness" crap. Shouldn't we just be trying to do the best for ourselves, instead of worrying about what China does (besides the forced abortions of course)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand all this "global competitiveness" crap. Shouldn't we just be trying to do the best for ourselves, instead of worrying about what China does (besides the forced abortions of course)?

Iceberg? What Iceberg?

Don't whinge to us when your kid is trying to sell his invention in China, and has no idea how to go about it.