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Article: School accountability accounting.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2005
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Byline: Neal McCluskey, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Public accountability" is what we get from public schools, and what we would lose if parents could choose their child's school, especially private schools.
Government schools, we're essentially warned, are all that stand between us and academic anarchy akin to philosopher Thomas Hobbes' "state of nature," a "war ... of every man against every man" in which life is "nasty, brutish, and short."
But public accountability has failed to erect a wall around the state of nature. Instead of keeping corruption and marauders at bay, poor parents and their children, as well as taxpayers who pay for ...