How About We Just Call Them Schools? Then We Can Focus On What Matters.
By Jennifer Wagner
Hear ye, hear ye.
Make way for the Official School Choice Language Brigade, summoned recently in response to terminology used by President Trump in his State of the Union address.
At one point in the speech, Trump referred to “government schools.” At another point, later in the speech, he called them “public schools.”
This is the stuff that vexes people with lots of unstructured free time, causing them to hem and haw and write pointed opinion pieces voicing support for one term or the other.
How About We Just Call Them Schools? Then We Can Focus On What Matters. was originally published in EdChoice on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
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