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- Title
A Din of Inequity: Private Schools Reconsidered.
- Authors
Doyle, Dents P.
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion related to the private schools in the U.S. Such schools remain, as the 1980s begin, the object of a curious liberal conceit. In contrast with public schools they are thought of as undemocratic, unaesthetic, and antisocial. The voluntarism they represent is viewed as escapist and exclusive, rather than communitarian and normative. Independent day and boarding schools are viewed as bastions of privilege and elitism, high-tuition schools that enroll the children of the nation's power elite. Traditional parochial schools, principally Catholic and Lutheran, enroll not the elites of commerce and academe, but the shock troops of the working class, the "hard hats" of urban America. And Christian Academies are the special province of the evangelical red-neck, who, as he praises the Lord, condemns the blacks, and retreats into a white-flight academy. As descriptions of reality they do not, but their power as myths remains. And while myths often tells much about society, it is interesting to look to the reality of private education in the 1980s.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRIVATE schools; VOLUNTEER service; CHURCH schools; WORKING class; PUBLIC schools
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1981, Vol 82, Issue 4, p661
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818108200407