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I’m not contrasting with private schools, I’m just not sure 100% of private schools do this so I focused on what I know.

It’s kind of funny how everyone projects their own dialectic framing on statements, and assumes that a person opposing side A automatically supports whatever is side B in their own mind.

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Yes everyone does do that. Most people will not take a tangential single sentence criticism of an institution to mean that you hold none of the typical accompanying political views and are just narrowly opining on your experience.

I would imagine a large majority of readers read your original post and immediately in their head thought, “are they one of those school voucher people” or something along those lines.

I don’t really understand why it’s necessary to assume anything at all. Can the statement not be taken at face value?

If we are all going around assuming 99% of the positions of people we are engaging with, what is the point of discussing anything?

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