By the end of the 1960s however, established assumptions and practices were questioned. Many people questioned whether equality of input in schooling was enough to promote equality of opportunities (some doubted that schooling had much to do with equality at all). Outcast groups eager for power argued that 'keeping the school out of politics' was a smokescreen for elite, white rule...People on both ends of the ideological spectrum began to propose basic alternative structure of schooling - vouchers, performance contracting, radical decentralization, free schools, alternative schools within the public system - and even the abolition of compulsory schooling or the deliberate deschooling of society (Tyack, 1974, p. 272)