4 thoughts on “School choice is local, too

  1. I’m less hostile to the idea of tracking than some of the comments yesterday but I don’t quite understand what the point is of not siphoning off talented students? Not that I’m super artistic, but I’ve always found the idea of arts-performing arts focused schools to be rather unobjectionable even if they reduce the artistic talent of the remaining schools.

    You’ve persuaded at least me that trade schools should have a bigger role in our overall educational system, but wouldn’t their expanded prominence also attract students with aptitude for those trades? How is siphoning off the pre-college smart kids into a school focused on the continuance of academics study not just an academic trade school?Report

  2. So, in theory you have no problem with an urban school district setting up a separate AP school and rural communities teaching to their priorities? Perhaps Agriculture would benefit one community more than physics.Report

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