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The American Three-Tiered Education System | Lefty Parent

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The American Three-Tiered Education System


American Educational Pironeer Horace Mann
According to former public school teacher turned radical unschooler John Taylor Gatto, we have developed a de facto three-tiered education system in the United States as follows…
Tier One – The elite private schools for the kids of our economic elite (the so called “One Percent”), where they have the opportunity to develop skills of leadership, entrepreneurship, and creative outside-the-box thinking and develop the necessary connections to people in power to become the next generation of corporate and political leaders.
Tier Two – The “good” public schools (and comparable religious and secular private schools) that train the kids