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[quote=Anonymous][quote] If most public schools in the US offered children a good education appropriate to their abilities, then maybe there wouldn't need to be private schools. But that's very far from the case, While affluent suburban districts are able to do this, the situation is very different in urban and rural areas. I would think the residents of the DC area would already know this. The truth is that the educational opportunities available to US schoolkids are very localized and unfairly deprive a great many of them of the opportunity to achieve their full academic potential. [/quote]
Ok, I don’t think that’s really the message of the article at all. But let’s assume for a moment that it is ...

Everyone (aside from a few dead-ender racists) wants public schools to be better and want public school students to have better outcomes.  Billions and billions have been thrown at study of that difficult problem and at potential solutions. The challenge is that most of the solutions have not made a meaningful dent in the problem. From what I read, many of the people who study these things have recognized that bad schools are just a symptom of a larger problem. That’s why the proposed fixes have aimed at younger and younger children. No doubt this inequality of opportunity and disparity of outcomes is a big challenge out society faces. But I’ve not seen any clear solution or even clear and credible diagnosis of the root of the problem.

And getting back to the Flanagan article, nothing really suggests that the excesses of some individual private schools or the percentage of private school students at Yale are really the source or the solution of poorly performing public schools. That’s why the article is a fail. Write about the burdens of our struggling public schools and the struggles of those students, and about latest research on possible solutions. Don’t waste time using those struggles as an excuse to write click-bait about private schools. [/quote]

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