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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s change the story here. In this version you have boys.

Your top public school system has a wonderful reputation and provides a rich and varied education for boys. From regular, to honors, to IB and AP. But they do not provide an equitable education to girls.

The girls are given a sub-par curriculum that does not even help them learn to read. They are labeled and often times isolated in separate rooms. Parents of girls are constantly advocating and fighting with the school to provide an education for their daughters too. But the school says they are doing just fine. The school will sometimes put together and make an educational plan and say okay we’ll do these things, like check her sentence writing 3 times in a semester to see if she gets it right 50% of the time. And we’ll see if she can understand 50% of what she reads 2 times. That should be good enough right? I mean why would you expect us to do more than that for your daughter? It’s not like she’s a boy, so you shouldn’t  expect too much. And maybe she would do better if she just tried harder like the boys.

Each year you will fight for your daughter and each year they kick the can down the road. Elementary team to middle school team to high school team.  Until eventually they say, you need to look at alternatives for your daughter. She’ll never go to college, she can only read at a 4th grade level.

Now imagine you’re the lawyer that some of the parents, that had the means to afford a lawyer, had. You see this happening to girl after girl after girl. You see the lousy outcomes. You know that they’re even worse for the girls whose parents didn’t have lawyers. You see this injustice daily and you fight for fair treatment of these girls everyday.

But your friend is annoyed with you because her son goes to this top public school and does not want to keep hearing about how it’s not great for some people because it’s where he goes. And that by the way, it’s a top public school. [/quote]

Imagine also that some folks don't particularly care about the education of girls AT ALL. They are cool that boys get educated (although they really only need for a small proportion -- their boys) to get educated. And the rest of the boys and all of the girls don't particularly need to be well educated as they will be needed to be workers, and if they are too well educated they might well revolt against the ruling classes.

Your friend sends her own kids to a school that doesn't have to take girls at all, if they don't want to, and only takes the elite boys from the most wealthy families.

And when your friend rails against public schools, she adds to that set of voices that don't care about the education of girls. In fact, some of them are actively trying to take public education away from girls and move into into the hands of private companies, so they can make profits.

The alternative to public education isn't high quality private education for all. It's education for the elite, and factory school for the worker class. Where the factory schools are owned by the factory owner, and the kids are the product.[/quote]

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