Sending your kid to private school makes you a bad person

My article this week has an alarming title and an even more alarming background. "If you send your kid to private school, you are a bad person". This is what the entire article is about, someone really believes this statement. This really speaks out to me because I went to a private school from kindergarden to  eighth grade, why would that make me or my parents a "bad person". According to this article if you send your children to a private school you are ruining one of our nations most essential institutions. The authors idea is that if every parent sent their child to a public school, public schools would improve. When you think of it in that sense it really makes sense. Their are lots of parents that teach at public schools but send their children to private schools. The article claims that everyone should be invested in public schools. Its an interesting thought because its hard to imagine our schools if public schools were the only options. Would it help our public schools or would it make the gab between students even more dramatic. There are may questions I have when I read the first part of this article and even more when I continue to read. 

As you read on through the article more layers come into play. The author brings up the same idea that we have been talking about in class, not learning much while in school. The author talks about her experience during school and going to a public school. She is preaching that everyone should send their kids to a public school but then talks about getting drunk before football games and not learning anything, the exact opposite of what you would want your kids to do at school events. I am interested in why she thinks this is going to push her idea through to people and not turn them away. The entire idea of her article for me relates back to idea that has been coming back to our class and that is what is school about, why do you go to school, and what has our education system come down to.