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Who will save public schools?

You! says Sandra Tsing Loh, whose hilarious "Mother on Fire" is a rallying cry for urban parents who can't afford a fancy private institution.
By Amy Reiter

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  • Monday, August 18, 2008 07:04 PM

    Is this tongue-in-cheek...

    ...or are people in L.A. really so out of touch and afraid of the poor that they've literally never been in a public school? Does Salon's editorial staff realize that this article literally will not make sense to 95% of the rest of the country? Sometimes I think that this site is written almost entirely for rich women who live in S.F. and L.A. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of effort to move beyond that demographic anymore.

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