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by komali2 2173 days ago
> forcing everybody to be in the low quality public schools.

Seems obvious to me that the issue isn't that private or magnet schools are high quality, but rather that public schools are low quality. Basically, the goal is still, bring people up. The "bringing down" in this case is not only temporary, it's only actually "bringing to baseline."

A bunch of rich people and state congresspeople's kids being forced to go to "shitty public schools" sounds like a great way to force the issue.

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>A bunch of rich people and state congresspeople's kids being forced to go to "shitty public schools" sounds like a great way to force the issue.

This sounds suspiciously close to "hold other peoples' children hostage until they give me what I want"

And the alternative sounds suspiciously like "extract resources from poor communities to feed my rich kid new lacrosse sticks."

Again, if going to a public school is so bad as to be considered "holding a child hostage," the issue isn't the making-rich-kids-go-to-public-schools, it's the public schools.