EduShyster has written a hilarious and accurate description of Sweden’s love affair with privatization.
School choice advocates swooned over the Swedish model.
But something very bad happened on the Road to Utopia.
Read her post and learn from it.
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Wow, I thought they would be leading the world in college and career readiness! Maybe the 11,000 students whose corporation (school) went out of business can fall back on a career of making meatballs for IKEA.
lol…very funny Dee Dee.
Very interesting… I read the PISA report yesterday, and wondered what the hell happened to the country I grew up in. Your post explained a lot – thanks!