I agree with Keith that Gatto perhaps underestimates or ignores the benefits of high schools to strengthen his own arguments. It is true that certain students, especially those who made it to Williams, are exposed to “grown-up material” but I guess Gatto’s claim is more about the way that they are exposed to it rather than the exposure itself. I liked how Keith analyzed the various functions of school that Gatto lays out, especially in relation to Williams. Although I agree that Williams can be part of the system that fulfills the differentiating, selective, and propaedeutic functions, I would argue that it does have tools to fight some of those functions.