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Article: Privatizing our schools: lessons from the British Army and World War II.
- Article from:
- The Clearing House
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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The arguments about school choice and privatization cut broadly across the entire spectrum of social issues. To many educators, the push for school choice is seen as an assault on the universal availability of education in this country. Their reasoning is that if the students with the richest and most involved parents are allowed to hoard quality education as an economic commodity, then the cost of that education will be driven up while the quality of the education that trickles down to the remaining students will tend to stagnate. The specter of the public school's being used as a dumping ground for the worst and most troublesome students haunts many educators whose ...