What's Old is New Again, But with a New Blurb on the Dust Cover

Another interesting article calling on progressive people to send their children to local public schools (ht to Joanne Jacobs).  Yes, they claim it's out of principle.  But, dang, they sure can save a lot of money.  They can put that extra money towards a good State school.

Sending My Kids to Public School: Why being a part of the system is how to fix it By Rhiana Maidenberg

Yeah! for these recent essays making the case for upper-middle class/progressive kinds of parents to enroll their children in local schools and to become part of the solution.  It's a better argument than going after people for not putting their children into the local schools.  Put your own children into local schools before criticizing other people for not doing so.  Anyway, arguments against choice and vouchers lack moral umph when made from people whose own children attend stellar public schools or private academies.

But fair warning:  For those who think their decision to opt in is revolutionary, fixing the system from the inside has been an on-going and thankless process pursued by parents for decades, and no more likely to be effective without real choice for all parents.

Funny world when progressives and Charles Murray all agree on something:

Changing life in the SuperZIPs requires that members of the new upper class rethink their priorities. Here are some propositions that might guide them: Life sequestered from anybody not like yourself tends to be self-limiting. Places to live in which the people around you have no problems that need cooperative solutions tend to be sterile. America outside the enclaves of the new upper class is still a wonderful place, filled with smart, interesting, entertaining people. If you're not part of that America, you've stripped yourself of much of what makes being American special.

Such priorities can be expressed in any number of familiar decisions: the neighborhood where you buy your next home, the next school that you choose for your children, what you tell them about the value and virtues of physical labor and military service, whether you become an active member of a religious congregation (and what kind you choose) and whether you become involved in the life of your community at a more meaningful level than charity events.

 

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