A high performance standard, yielding high rates
of public school failure, will only confirm left wing fears that the Common Core is a Trojan horse for privatization.
But, after observing at close range how the voucher school movement was using standardized test results — the No Child Left Behind concept, for example — as excuses to
declare public schools failures while promoting private schools, she completely changed her views.
They also bolster misperceptions
about public school failure, place urban schools in the cross hairs and lend ammunition to privatization schemes.
No successful public school teacher or principal or superintendent appears in the film; indeed there is no mention of any successful public school, only the incessant drumbeat on the theme
of public school failure.
Create separate standards for education by exclusion, and continue the drumbeat of «
public school failure».