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[quote=Anonymous]First: does slate offer anything besides click baiting pieces? Serious question there. Seems like that's what you get there.  But, yeah...disagree.

I went to public school because my parents had no other options. There was gang violence and one child was raped in a stairwell while I was in school there. (Yes, really). My son is in a private school that we bend over backwards to afford for two reasons - one: the school we are in-bounds for was recently in the news - a teacher had molested one of the elementary children there. 2. I don't want my child to be forced to sit in a row and cram reading and math at the expense of all other things, and put up with the homework bullshit that you get at public school. My kid is shy and sensitive and would not thrive in that situation. My experience with public school, as a child, was not just "bad" or inadequate, it was truly traumatizing. I had my head flushed down a toilet.

I think Benedikt has a very limited idea of what public education amounts to in this country, informed by her own fortunes (both as a child, and as a parent of children who are / were in a SAFE space).

The author did crack me up when she was talking about how limited she is, but turned out "just fine." I had to chuckle thinking that someone who writes a judgmental manifesto and almost boasts about her lack of education and then somehow uses it to say "but hey, look at me, look what I'm doing, writing trollbait articles for a d-list publication" gave me a little giggle.

I will say that in an ideal world, all of the idealists would group together and get behind public schools. So this sense that you should send your kid to public school for the greater good makes sense in the same sort of way socialism makes sense - on paper only. Because the truth is, public school cannot offer me what I need for my kids, no matter how desperately I wish this weren't so. Maybe someday if I move to her neighborhood, or somewhere in upper NW, or inbounds for Brent (maybe, still not sure about any DC school to be honest) I would also be a big public school booster again.

PS. I'm SO not a conservative. I was super anti school choice / vouchers / etc for years, and still am, kind of. It's not that I don't see the point of the article. But it's so complicated. Because the schools aren't safe spaces, they suck the good out of education, I truly believe that. I do what I can to change public schools, but I cna't personally change NCLB. It seems the R's have won this one - public schools have been completely ruined, so if you want your kids to be safe and get a good, loving, nurturing environment (and if you live in my neighborhood) you do private or do the charter school thing. [/quote]

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