Solutions to schooling?

“One is to give up on public schools, accept their neoliberal function of delivering ‘the basics’ accountably, and work to provide portfolio-forming activities and experiences, as well as political-critical capacities, for disadvantaged children outside of school and at school at the margins of the neoliberal curriculum. The other is to fight the neoliberal agenda and make schools sites for creativity, deep thinking, and the formation of whole people: sites in which all children can gain portfolios suitable for success, but success defined in multiple ways, and gain the ability to critique and transform social formations in the service of creating better worlds for all” (James Paul Gee, 2004, p. 110).