"Let's stop ignoring basic economic principles of supply and demand" speaks to our faith in the market. "[ U] ntil we fix our schools, we will never fix the nation's broader economic problems" triggers our blind willingness to compete and our enduring faith in schools as tools of social reform. They are compelling because we have been saying them for a century.
Just as the fabricated story of Pat Tillman and his sacrifice justified war.
"I don't believe that even the best teachers can completely overcome the huge deficits in socialization, motivation and intellectual development that poor students bring to class through no fault of their own" sounds weak, fatalistic, in the face of our myths, the words of soft people eager to shift the blame. It is something we dare not tell.
Just as the smoldering facts of Pat Tillman's death remain too hard to ask about and too hard to tell.
But only the latter are supported by evidence. But only the latter contradict the Great American Myths about which we dare not ask, we dare not tell.
Captain America wears a mask for a reason: The myth is easier to look at, easier to tell about than the truth hidden underneath--whether we are asking about and looking hard at the death of a complex man, Pat Tillman, or the complex influences of poverty on the lives and learning of children across our country.
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