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8. They need it to be broken. They've been at this for over 30 years now.

Diane Ravitch says the 'schools are broken' claim goes back several generations. In the 60s they were broken so we were going to lose the race to the moon if we didn't fix them. In the 70s it was integration that broke our schools. Now all of a sudden they're broken because we aren't educating low income minority kids as well as we could be.

And the reality is we are graduating more kids, fewer are dropping out and ACT scores have gone up. That's not broken. But if they aren't broken, then we don't need any radical reforms that take away art and music from our kids who need those classes the most. And there's no money to be made on 'fixing' the broken schools. Darn.