Re: [Pen-l] RE: charter schools

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 27, 2009, at 5:05 PM, 123hop@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  "My abhorrence rests on the progressive mindset/principal that  
> would deny little Johnny the benefit of the alternative even if were  
> a stipulated fact that the alternative school would be better for  
> little Johnny.  The fundamental issue is whether a good society  
> tells llittle Johnny's parents that because it is in the best  
> interest of other children, little Johnny should get a worse  
> education than he otherwise could have."
>
> Yes, you're right: that is the fundamental issue. So the question  
> is, what about the other children? What rights do they have?
>
> The other question is why make education a scarce commodity? There's  
> no need for it to be scarce.


I think there are three issues, really:

(a) what about other Little Johnny's (which you mention above and  
which David characterises as our intruding on the preppie's rights).

(b) the issue of what constitutes a good education and who can measure  
that.

(c) whether and why Little Johnny is really that much more intelligent  
than his peers and his parents able to put him in a charter school  
rather than a public one.

	--ravi

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