Other important values are being neglected. I am not against free enterprise. I support it to the extent it does not harm people and society as a whole. I am alarmed at the influence of the part of our educational system which is mediated by commercial television. I am not trying to get public schools off the hook either.
Reform is needed in both arenas.
If reform is to be truly systemic, as many are arguing it should be, then the whole educational system must be addressed. The whole system includes both the public school sector and the part mediated by commercial television. If big business points the finger at the failures of public school systems, then it should also point the finger at itself for its own role in promoting consumerism and violence at the expense of inculcating wisdom. Instead of pointing fingers or guns, let's together figure out a way to do something constructive to solve the whole problem in American education, and not focus solely on the school systems. Commercial television is part of the problem and cannot be allowed to ignore its own role in educating the American public.