Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools

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12. Straw man argument?

But even if the reformers and pro-privatization people are at times ignorantly misled in their demands to go back to a better educational system, I don't believe that's really the basis of their arguments. They do want to destroy public education based on the idea that more individual choice into the system will make it better. Market solutions may or may not be incorrect but efforts to dismiss them as a hoax or to falsely focus on the alleged importance of straw man historical arguments isn't actually as good of an argument as some of you seem to think it is. That being said, is a great history lesson and she has long done excellent work in summing up the story of our countries educational reform efforts.