In relation to your school choice point, I think its a real disservice to call school choice advocates "demagogues".
There is a major tension between your contention that educational methods don't matter (the null hypothesis) and school choice. If schooling doesn't matter then public schools should be just as good as private schools (roug…
In relation to your school choice point, I think its a real disservice to call school choice advocates "demagogues".
There is a major tension between your contention that educational methods don't matter (the null hypothesis) and school choice. If schooling doesn't matter then public schools should be just as good as private schools (roughly). And if they are just as good why should parents engage in the gargantuan efforts that would be necessary to take on the teachers union and other entrenched interest? You're asking people to make big sacrifices for something you think isn't worth it.
For parents to want to take on the burden of overturning the status quo you need to convince them that there is a huge payoff. "Your kids will end up trans if you don't pass vouchers" is a huge payoff. Ditto "your kids will wear a mask all day" or "your kids will be taught to hate you" or "insert issue here".
The irony of saying that most of what happens at school doesn't matter is that it makes the default best option for random people to dump them in the free public schools and forget it.
In relation to your school choice point, I think its a real disservice to call school choice advocates "demagogues".
There is a major tension between your contention that educational methods don't matter (the null hypothesis) and school choice. If schooling doesn't matter then public schools should be just as good as private schools (roughly). And if they are just as good why should parents engage in the gargantuan efforts that would be necessary to take on the teachers union and other entrenched interest? You're asking people to make big sacrifices for something you think isn't worth it.
For parents to want to take on the burden of overturning the status quo you need to convince them that there is a huge payoff. "Your kids will end up trans if you don't pass vouchers" is a huge payoff. Ditto "your kids will wear a mask all day" or "your kids will be taught to hate you" or "insert issue here".
The irony of saying that most of what happens at school doesn't matter is that it makes the default best option for random people to dump them in the free public schools and forget it.