Utterly Meaningless

You can do away with the scarequotes but not the scare quotient . .
Parents are publicly tarred with labels in return, called things like “charter whores” and “voucher vultures”.

And young people suffer all sorts of derisive and dismissive labels in the media, including — but not limited to — those who don’t fit the usual school expectations and rules.

Education Rhetoric:
The Intemperate Pot, and the Hypocritical Kettle
March 5, 2004
David W. Kirkpatrick, Senior Education Fellow

Derision breeds contempt, not clarity or progress. Any interest subgroup from Hezbollah to HSing marks itself as scary imo, when it intentionally pumps up the volume of derisive, dehumanizing words and graphics.

Finally had time to run down a current link to that Kirkpatrick column:
This should work.

(excerpt)
. . . the NEA has reportedly described those who disagree with it as “congenital reactionaries, dangerous witch hunters, energized super patriots, … and vitriolic race-haters.” . . . American of Federation Teachers (AFT) President Sandra Feldman has been quoted as saying school choice supporters are “barbarians.”