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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: epicure who wrote (1468)5/26/2003 10:59:19 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 793842
 
I taught, for some ten years, along with some colleagues, a several section seminar in which Kozol's Savage Inequalities was one of the center pieces. We drew politically engaged students of several stripes--conservative, liberal, libertarian, etc. because we were known as upfront about our political convictions but open to debate and thus viewed as nonideological. They were wonderful classes, among the high points of my teaching life.

Kozol's book was always a defining book because none of the students of whatever persuasion had any idea it was so bad. And when we then began discussing ways to address the issues he raises, we introduced voucher material as well as reforming public schools. Those debates were fascinating as well because they were honest policy debates of the sort, given how bad it is, what is the best path to correct them. As opposed to most voucher debates in which the not so hidden agenda is the destruction of the public school system.
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