What I don't want to do is to see a diminished commitment to the public schools to the point where all we have are the hardest-to-teach kids with the least involved parents with the most disabilities in the public schools. That's going to make things worse, and we're going to lose the commitment to public schools that I think have been so important to building this country.
Time to wake up and smell the coffee, Senator. That is exactly what we have now in many parts of the country, particularly the urban areas. From where he sends his own children, it would appear that he knows this to be true, even while he deplores it.
On September 1, 2007, this blog cited an article which reports that urban public school teachers are much more likely to send their children to private schools than non-teacher parents in their cities. Who knows better than the public school teachers that children one cares about probably should not attend urban public schools.
