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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That busing cost is academic. What PP is inelegantly (inaccurately) complaining about is requiring more from schools than academics, such as teaching diversity and inclusivity, teaching health including sex ed and broader social issues such as trafficking, and most problematic, expecting schools to ameliorate the achievement gap rather than relying upon parents to do so.

I think PP doesn't realize that schools have traditionally played a significant part in indoctrinating culture. [b]The requirement that schools solve the problem of poverty and/or lack of value of education, though, is new. And probably impossible, but still worth some effort.[/b][/quote]

This is laughably untrue.  My Italian and Polish grandparents showed up at public school not speaking a lick of English and with parents who themselves had zero education.  My Jewish grandparents showed up with only Yiddish and German.

Teaching English and American culture has ALWAYS been a part of the public school experience, for as long as we've been committed to public schools for everyone.

As for ameliorating the achievement gap, that's just in the best interests of the country.  Children shouldn't be punished because their parents can't or won't educate them at home.  All children deserve the chance to achieve to their own personal potential, and the idea that you have only "earned" a good education if you were born to well-educated or well-off parents is frankly unAmerican.  [/quote]

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