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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The flaws in this article are many:

1) By NOT sending kids to public schools, you free up funds for those who do.

[b]2) No parent, anywhere, will "sacrifice" (if they see it as such) their kid if they can avoid it. It's human nature.[/b]

3) Schools are local - higher SES kids generally live in better school districts. Increasing the population of those schools does nothing to help the kids in the poorer areas.

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#2 is where I think the author is completely delusional.  It's in our DNA to want to do well by our offspring.  It's foolhardy to think that people should/would sacrifice the well being of their children for the presumably better good of society 2 or 3 generations out.[/quote]

Yes, absolutely.  The notion that people will (and should!) willingly accept a subpar education for their kids because that is a tiny little part in "fixing" public education for 50 years down the road is absurd.  Plus, what abotu parents who live in DC, for instance, but moved out to the 'burbs to search for better publis schools (raising hand).  Aren't we just as culpable as the evil private school parents?  We didn't stay in a failing urban school either.  [/quote]

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