Note: This article is written as a rejoinder to Mehta and Datnow’s August 2020 article, “Changing the Grammar of Schooling: An Appraisal and a Research Agenda,” published in Vol. 126, No. 4 of the American Journal of Education. You can find that article here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709960 “Finally, thank goodness!”, I thought to myself when I saw