How Public Schools Demand Failure and Perpetuate Poverty

Teaching Apathy

Insisting students remain in school is analogous to telling a battered woman to stay with her abusive husband.

Published May 15 2016 12:01AM EDT

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Viewed broadly, schooling is an ineffective vehicle for social transformation and instead upholds the status quo. A pernicious consequence of the myth of schools being the best approach to overcome poverty is that the neediest are blamed for their impoverishment.

Compulsory education is frequently celebrated as the best means for economic...

Cevin Soling

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How Public Schools Demand Failure and Perpetuate Poverty

Insisting students remain in school is analogous to telling a battered woman to stay with her abusive husband.

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Cevin Soling