re: #260 researchok

Obdi, we can go round and round on this issue. That may even serve a purpose.

Nevertheless, when poor and minority parents beg and plead for a space in a private school, the details somehow lose importance.

Well, they shouldn’t. Not if you actually want to solve the problem.

There are huge problems in the public school system. However, the fact that we have very, very, very many successful school districts, including ones with 100% minority students, shows us that the problem is not inherent in public education.

There is no possibility of simply handing the problem off to private schools to fix. You can’t force private schools to take any and all students. As much as it’d be great if that solution were actually possible, it is not. Pretending that it is will not fix the problem.