it is this ?We promise equal

Elusive Trope — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:34:58 +0000

it is this “We promise equal opportunity—not equal outcomes” that gets politicians like Ryan painted into the corner. If the discussion is kept to business competing in the marketplace, all is well. One can spend time talking on and on about regulations and red tape that keep businesses from succeeding - and thus push the Reaganism of government needing to get out of the way.

But if the discussion turns to something like education, everything falls apart. How does a society ensure equal opportunity to a quality education without the community (i.e. government) involved? The charter school movement was so enthusiastically embrace by those of Ryan's mindset because it gave them what seemed an out. But the performance data of the charter school system has basically taken this off the table as the cure all solution.

The key indicator to academic achievement is poverty. And the only way children are going to enter school ready to succeed, and succeed while in school is if the community through a private-public partnership directly intervenes to provide the necessary support for these children. Only then can people say all the children have an equal opportunity to succeed in school. Capitalism and the free market ideology doesn't have all the answers for a society that makes a education commitment to all the children.

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it is this ?We promise equal