Bradford: When the Cost of Admission Is Paying Off a College, Americans Are Outraged. But When It’s the Price of a House Near a Good School, There’s Silence
“Hypocrisy abounds in the overlap between the college scam and the one in K-12 that uses the housing market as the proxy for the buying and selling of schools and that asks the divided interests of the country’s school districts — which are notably entangled in the creation of the problem — to untie themselves as they solve it. The hypocrisy is bad, but the symmetry here is worse. And now is the perfect time for the righteous defenders of the House-to-Schooling Pipeline, aghast at how money and privilege manipulate the world of higher education, to take a very, very long look in the mirror.”