Introduction
The book by Alan Wolfe School choice: the moral debate in chapter two provides a discussion over the governmental approach toward the education and provision of opportunities to study in school for the population. In this respect, the social irrelevance in capacities of different layers within the society is discussed. School choice remains one of the main backgrounds according to the peoples’ racial biases because many of them prefer white schools to black. Such disorientation and loss of standards in education promote a mere dissatisfaction with the notion of freedom, about which Americans are eager to speak about day and night. Such instability of equality in educational standards and opportunities is outlined by the author as intentional attempts of society to contradict the realities. Citing one of the researchers in this field of activities Wolfe notes: “Americans remain much more individualistic, meritocratic-oriented, and anti-statist than peoples elsewhere” (32). Here comes a notion of double standards which apply to the real situation with school choice. American public values can be described through the school choice. Furthermore, politicians, regarding Wolfe, are aware of the statistics of private and public schools as of levels of attendance, but they are not willing, except in California, to promote the population with needful vouchers for school. All in all, this part of the book assumes the idea that nowadays the efficient pathway in the organization and provision of appropriate school choice can be solved by virtues of market needs, as it is trendy in the USA at the moment.
The criticism
The criticism of the excerpt from the book by A. Wolfe is not unique in its implementation for American society. The thing is that Americans, Whites, in particular, still cannot get accustomed to the fact that the US is perceived in its multinational and multicultural coloring. As Wolfe admits, since the times of the Constitution adoption Americans are so likely to appreciate freedom, but actually, they make difference in its social cut between different ethnicities. When it concerns the educational system, people are apt even to intentionally place children in schools where there are hardly applicable standards for achieving proper education. On the other hand, the excerpt from the book is lack of originality in the depiction of current positive experience in other countries of the world. Moreover, the one-sidedness of the survey about the problem cannot provide a reader with a whole picture of possible solutions to the problem. It can be done, particularly, in a concise form.
Conclusion
As for me, the problem of school choice still seems to have fewer solutions. It is seen in the example of how federal and local governments make an alleged vision of high concernment about social affairs. In reality, people from very childhood are divided in America in strict accordance to the supposed or seen peculiarities. It is highly felt in terms of ethnic framework. Alan Wolfe is apt to demonstrate in his book a paradoxical evaluation of real intentions within Americans. Here is a dilemma that props up against the drive for freedom compared with hatred (intentional or hidden) within the society from the lower to upper layers of it. Thus, school choice of parents of children today undergoes different aspects as of conditions and content of a school itself.
Works cited
Wolfe, Alan. School choice: the moral debate. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.