Monday, June 13, 2005

Social mobility fault of Teachers/Democrats

Ludicrous piece in The Economist's Lexington column that notes the increasing polarisation of American society into class divisions and the declining income mobility, and blames just three things, 1) the teaching profession for not liking 'competition', 2) the Democrats for being too close to the teaching profession, and 3) parents for keeping educational privilege in the family. Nevertheless as this is 'natural' you can't really find fault with this, so actually it's just the first two.