re: #460 researchok

Those schools know their limits. That’s why there are lotteries for available slots.

Exactly. So they’re not a solution, except on an incredibly, incredibly limited scale.

As for the hostility toward science, the GOP is partially responsible, yes- and the problem is growing, to be sure. But there is also a cultural antipathy towards education in both the poor and minority communities. That has been written about before. How to address that is a whole other conversation, as you can imagine.

I’m glad that you can acknowledge that the GOP’s attacks on science are part of the problem.

I think the minority communities’ attitudes towards school reflect the unfulfilled promises of those schools. It is a whole other conversation, but I think it’s one that would be helped first and foremost by an improvement to those schools themselves.

Also see kirkspencer’s posts about schools raising their prices in the face of vouchers; the free market has that aspect to it as well.