Public education is not broken. It is not failing or declining. The diagnosis is wrong, and the solutions of the corporate reformers are wrong. Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation. But public education is not ‘broken.’ Public education is in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it. Diane Ravitch
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While this quote is quite true, it contains a very dangerous message. The message of this quote is that public education is not broken, rather it has been disrupted by the problem of poverty and racism. In other words, our public education system is not failing or declining, it is simply being hurt by the problems of poverty and segregation. In this way, the author implies that we don't need to repair the existing problems of poverty and racism but rather we need to create a new narrative with a new problem in order to fix the existing problems of poverty and racism.

We must convince people that our current education system is broken because it can't handle the problem of poverty and racism. This way we can have a completely new public education system created from scratch with no history or context to compare it to.

Source: Reign Of Error: The Hoax Of The Privatization Movement And The Danger To Americas Public Schools

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