Jonathan Kozol Quote
When low-income districts go to court to challenge the existing system of school funding, writes John Coons, the natural fear of the conservative is that the levelers are at work here sapping the foundations of free enterprise.In reality, he says, there is no graver threat to the capitalist system than the present cyclical replacement of the ‘fittest’ of one generation by their artificially advantaged offspring. Worse, when that advantage is proffered to the children of the successful , we can be sure that free enterprise has sold its birthright.… To defend the present public school finance system on a platform of economic or political freedom is no less absurd than to describe it as egalitarian. In the name of all the values of free enterprise, the existing system [is] a scandal.
When low-income districts go to court to challenge the existing system of school funding, writes John Coons, the natural fear of the conservative is that the levelers are at work here sapping the foundations of free enterprise.In reality, he says, there is no graver threat to the capitalist system than the present cyclical replacement of the ‘fittest’ of one generation by their artificially advantaged offspring. Worse, when that advantage is proffered to the children of the successful , we can be sure that free enterprise has sold its birthright.… To defend the present public school finance system on a platform of economic or political freedom is no less absurd than to describe it as egalitarian. In the name of all the values of free enterprise, the existing system [is] a scandal.
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