She's not railing against private Catholic schools, or even $10,000/yr private schools. She's going after the big dogs - to wit (emphasis in bold):
The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—and these are our focus here. In the past five years, Dalton has sent about a third of its graduates to the Ivy League. Ditto the Spence School. Harvard-Westlake, in Los Angeles, sent 45 kids to Harvard alone. Noble and Greenough School, in Massachusetts, did even better: 50 kids went on to Harvard.
Ms Flanagan taught at one of these places then sent her kids to one of these places...she know them inside and out. She's a bit of a thorn in the side of feminists and leftist alike. She probably wouldn't be popular on FR but I'd sooner have her at my barbecue than McConnell, Willlard, or Cheney.
I agree her subtext is a bit class-based ...
In a just society, there wouldn’t be a need for these expensive schools, or for private wealth to subsidize something as fundamental as an education. We wouldn’t give rich kids and a tiny number of lottery winners an outstanding education while so many poor kids attend failing schools. In a just society, an education wouldn’t be a luxury item.
We have become a country with vanishingly few paths out of poverty, or even out of the working class. We’ve allowed the majority of our public schools to founder, while expensive private schools play an outsize role in determining who gets to claim a coveted spot in the winners’ circle. Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is you are precious to us. Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is you are a threat to us.
...but at its core, her article's main thrust is, anti-elitist. FR has oodles of such posts and articles online.
And for what it's worth, I believe she IS spot-on. It's part of the reason people homeschool - the public schools are indoctrination centers and private schools are...well...indoctrination centers. The big diff between the two, is the latter hope their virtue-signaling stop the former from harvesting their organs first. HSers will watch from afar surrounded by food, water, books, and ordnance.
I for one do not welcome our insect overlords. This is a great article IMHO.
So?
Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is you are precious to us. Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is you are a threat to us.
Distinction without difference.
We wouldn't give rich kids and a tiny number of lottery winners an outstanding education while so many poor kids attend failing schools.
Who is this WE dimwit?
Nothing is GIVEN to these kids, their parents pay for it.
Plus they also pay an exorbitant amount for the poor kids to be educated by teachers who do not give a crap as long as they get paid.
You puppy cuddle the female all you like. I will keep the bitch at arms length. She is incapable of rational thought