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carsongross on May 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Test for School Reform in Newark

And there, my friends, is the totalitarian impulse: "We must coercively centralize in the name of platonic ideals, damn the costs."

icebraining on May 13, 2014 | [–]

You must have read a different post than me. The one I read pointed concrete (true or not) problems with the model of small school districts, not "platonic ideals".

gagaga on May 13, 2014 | [–]

And there, my friends, is the spin: "Let me poorly reduce someone's well reasoned statement into a biased sentence."

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