Sounds about right to me.
Thompson, however, was talking about private schools. How much of that prescription is met by the current attempts to reform public education?
- Demanding academics… maybe that's what you could call the unending attention to test-taking, but with the withering away of any subject that's not covered on the test, I think it's a stretch. (Science? History? Geography? Art and music? Phys ed?)
- Teachers with high morale… that's a joke, right? I don't think even education "reform" advocates would say they care about teacher morale.
- Enriched extra-curriculars… even without the adjective, basic extra-curriculars have suffered in public schools and when they exist, they sometimes come with a price tag that bars kids who need them most from participating.
- Small class size… reformers make a point of saying that class size makes no difference, while sending their own kids to private schools with class sizes in the teens or single digits.
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