If You Send Your Kid To A Private School By Anol Benedikt Analysis

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A critical analysis of Allison Benedikt's article "If you send your kid to a private school, you are a bad person". My general impression about this article is she sounds a little angry about people sending their kids to a private school. It turns out that blunt ranting is an outstanding way to get the attention of parents who send their kids to private schools. In this article, the author Benedikt Allison is Slate's Executive specialist, she specializes in clinical products at Medtronic. She graduated from the University of Michigan, has a writer and editor at the Chicago Tribune and brill's content. At the first glance of this article, it may appear to be offensive and generally exaggerating. But Benedikt claims that removing your child from a crappy school to better …show more content…
She also says her parents did not send her to this shoddy school because they believed in public education but because that is where they lived and they were not too worried about it. That is completely clear given her line of understanding. In her manifesto, Allison Benedikt rants about the differences between public and privates school showing her effects with a blunt rant. She really could not explain what the benefits will be only that it would not happen immediately for your kids because it could take generations. The narrative point of view is seen when she said she went to k-12 to terrible a public school. And she explains her personal experience while in she was in school, she said “My high school didn't offer AP classes, and in four years, I only had to read one book''. Allison Benedikt classifies a little bit on why "Bad people" send their kids to private school. She says "some do it for prestige or out of loyalty to a long-standing family tradition, many go private because of religious reasons or simply because their kids have learning

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