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Originally posted by Munchkin03
Perhaps some districts and education systems need to be completely overhauled, but to say that the entire system should be toppled is ignorant at best.
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I used the Berlin Wall as a metaphor for public education, particularly in poor neighborhoods. Free choice would have the effect of toppling some of these districts, and that would be a good thing. Refusing to reflexively defend a status quo that has failed is anything but ignorant.
I also went to good high schools. I went to public school in the 10th grade at Brooklyn Tech. I went to a mid-tier Manhattan private school in the 11th and 12th grades at New Lincoln. That experience made me realize how much students at public schools are suffering. New Lincoln was really a much better educational environment than Brooklyn Tech, and Brooklyn Tech was, and is one of the best public high schools in New York.
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