Chicago Strike Shows Why we Need School Choice

absinthe Mattie is on leave. I know her very well so I know how she would respond. First, she would thank you for your kind and reasonable response. Then she would tell you you have made a very good point about sports. Thomas Sowell, in his book Inside American Education, has much to say against the influence of athletics in the public school system (especially at the college level). Of course, that all begins at the lower levels (and feeds into college sports). Indeed it is a corrupting influence. Of course, the definitive book on the corrupt of ed. in the USA is "The Troubled Crusade" by Diane Ravitch. The corruption begins at Columbia University at the turn of the last century in conjunction with the Progressive political movement