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Education Reformers Send Their Own Children to Private Schools

source: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/education_reformers_send_their_kids_to_private_school_20...

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The Washington Post notes that it has become an unquestioned “tradition among Washington’s power elite” — read: elected officials — to send their kids to the ultra-expensive private school Sidwell Friends. At the same time, many of these officials have backed budget policies that weaken public education.....(additional info at link)

Pretending this is acceptable or just a “private” decision, is to tolerate ancient, ruling-class notions that are no longer sustainable in the 21st century. Indeed, if this nation is going to remain a modern republic, it can’t also be a Medieval oligarchy — no matter how much America’s elite wants to keep governing from behind the palace walls.

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38 comments // Education Reformers Send Their Own Children to Private Schools

  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • Yeah, I've never really understood why private schools are allowed. The potential for abuse are dumbfounding.

      Since school grades determine scholorships, college admittance, etc; it should be illegal all together to pay for school directly. It would be akin to paying for your judge, prosecuter, and jury if you were being prosecuted for a crime. Wait, is that what the "court fees" were on my last ticket?

    • 4 months ago
  • corndog67
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    • If you really are worried about your kids school, you will do whatever it takes to get them into a good one.

      So what if they want to send their kids to private schools, I would too. Or as someone else said, home school them. But wait, getting a second job, or home schooling them is way too much work. Oh well, we can just blame the social-caste system right, not lack of effort on parents part. Or blame the school system. Or blame the government.

      How bad do you want for them to get educated? If all you are willing to do is bitch and whine behind a keyboard and blame everyone else, I guess you don't want it THAT much.

    • 4 months ago
  • FoosMaster
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    • corndog67:

      So, a mom that works 3 part time jobs because that is all she can get and lucky to have that and struggles just to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table is either Lazy or just doesn't want it bad enough?
      TeaPublicans either just don’t get it or more likely just don’t Care!!!

    • 4 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
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  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  

    • Home school them.... Oh-wait, that might get you put on a terror watch-list....

      Not surprised by this at all, and after some of the public schools I went to.... I will be home schooling....

      Which will be fine, the kids will get hands on experience with organic farming, permaculture, aquaponics, and we'll make good money selling certified organic produce to some high end restaurant (not telling them we give excess away at the local homeless shelter)....

    • 4 months ago
  • JohnA
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • This exclusionary attitude of those with the money to send their children to private schools as if that makes them better parents is b-s. So many send their children to boarding schools, academies, etc. so that they don't have to be parents because they are too wrapped up in their own lives.

    • 4 months ago
  • Milieu
  • remanns
  • Johnny_Los_Angeles
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      Johnny_Los_Angeles  

    • Of course this is why the right wing is always cutting education, and want religion taught in public schools their own kids go to expensive private schools they want the 99% to be stupid and mis informed about the real world.

    • 4 months ago
  • JangoFetish
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  
    • JangoFetish:

      You seem to Intentionally ignore the Reason why public schools are not doing very good, or does it even matter to you? The Reason public schools are not doing better is because they are Severely Under-funded. Just try to run a Private school without enough funds to do a proper job and the Private schools would be just as bad.

    • 4 months ago
  • JangoFetish
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    • FoosMaster:

      That is why the education system should be a federal institution rather than state. It is unfair that a child born in Kentucky does not get the equal education of one born in New York. A lesser education means less chances in life.

    • 4 months ago
  • FoosMaster
  • Incredulous
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    • JangoFetish:

      That situation might more easily be redressed if we would simply change the way we fund our public school systems, rather than hand over yet another public institution to the crooks and liars in Washington. As currently funded, the disproportionate amount of money going to different schools is based upon real estate taxes, with corporations being handed endless loopholes, so the schools in better neighborhoods, with higher real estate taxes, receive more of the education budget $$$. Been this way for a long time. I might suggest you read Jonathan Kozol's, "Savage Inequalities."

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Inequalities

    • 4 months ago
  • Dagum
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      Dagum  
    • JangoFetish:

      It already is a Federal Institution. To the best of my knowledge, no "state" public school is exempt from the jurisdiction and the control of the Federal Department of Eduction. And no "state" public school is exempt from the Federal No-Child left behind Act if they accept federal government money (which is probably every public school in the country). They are all federal government schools.

    • 4 months ago
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  
    • Dagum:

      For elementary thru high school there are Federal regulations but funding is from State and Local taxes. Colleges are private but most get federal funding and the people still have to pay for their Profits.
      I think ALL schools should be Federally funded so that the distribution of funds can be more uniform to help schools be more equal. I also think that Anyone that can keep a good GPA, say 2.5, should be allowed to go to College for Free if they want to, all paid by Federal taxes. That is the Only way to properly educate Everyone which would help our entire country advance. But the TeaPublicans feel that only those with money should be allowed to get an education. I think they are scared of the competition! ;-)

    • 4 months ago
  • Dagum
  • FoosMaster
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    • Dagum:

      I think that things can be improved but I have no problem with it being set at the federal level. Currently the Federal regulations are few and State and Local school boards have most of the control over curriculums, which makes schools in different areas Far different from others. We need a more Equal distribution of education funds and more uniform standards.
      Don’t get me wrong, I do think that Many things are being done Wrong on the federal level but unlike some people, I feel that we should “Fix” problems instead of just “Eliminating” programs just because they have problems.

    • 4 months ago
  • Dagum
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      Dagum  
    • FoosMaster:

      Certainly, there is diversity in what's taught from one local school board to another. To get rid of the diversity, you could have the federal government implement uniformity in the curriculum. Of course uniformity itself isn't a virtue. It could be uniformly good or uniformly bad, depending on how corrupt our federal government is.

    • 4 months ago
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  
    • Dagum:

      Yes, and that is why we need to continually push our congressmen to Improve things when they are not working good enough. With the current environment of Money and Lobbyists in congress it is becoming harder and harder to get things done to benefit the common people but we must Not give up just because things are harder than they should be. The federal government Can do good things but we must keep pushing our congress to Correct things when we feel that they are not working properly Not just eliminating things because they are not working the way we want them to. We are Never going to get the Perfect legislation, it is always a compromise with people of differing views, so we Must keep pushing for the policies We want.

    • 4 months ago
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  

    • They are not only cutting education budgets so they can cut taxes further for the Rich but they are pushing to completely Eliminate 'Public' education so that the Rich would not have to pay Any taxes for the poor to go to school. It's about GREED and the Rich care Nothing about anyone else. The less educated the public is the easier they are to controle.
      We are on the edge of the point of no return with our policies and if the Rich can buy enough elections to give the TeaPublicans Total controle we are all Doomed to be slaves to the Corporate Elite.

    • 4 months ago
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • p.p.s. - - -I have NO ,....intrinsic,...objection to 'vouchers',....or home schooling,....or 'private education" - ( though the DEVIL is certainly in the details ),....I DO,....most certainly, have an objection to the rules by which our rulers TAKE RULE, and who our rulers are,.... and the supposed connection between the citizens of the state and their RULERS.

      Aint none. Nope. Different "class" o' folk.

    • 4 months ago
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
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  • Dagum
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      Dagum  

    • No kidding. Two classes of citizens, two different types of eduction. One for the elites and their children, and one for the general public which will instruct the masses's children on how to serve the elites in their corporate and political power system.

      If you are a parent and you care about your child receiving an actual eduction that allows them to be more than a serf, you will teach them yourself. It is no use expecting that when your child goes to a serf school he/she will learn or be anything other than a serf.

    • 4 months ago
  • Incredulous
  • remanns
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      remanns  
    • Dagum:

      I basically agree. I had some good teachers as a youth,.....but my damn HOME was an educational resource, . . .I was well armed to absorb whatever I found of interest at the "indoctrination camp".

      College was good, though. But it wasn't free.

      p.s. +^d

    • 4 months ago
  • remanns
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      remanns  
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    • Their children DO look tasty,.............( I don't mean that in a pedophile way ,.....I mean that in a "pastry" way. ) Mmmmmmmmmmm,.....good cookin ; like veal or eggs !

      Best let the carnivores deal with this uncontrolled Plutocrat herd - you vegetarians dont have the stomach for it.

      ` EAT THE RICH '

      Hmmmm,.....blonds are more "yum" ? The parents are more sport though, there is nothing like the feeling of chasing a wild young W.A.S.P. buck through the virgin woods on his own estate ! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW ! Just add picante sauce !

      http://images.kaneva.com/filestore0/498451/624171/Gerber%20picante%20sauce_ad.jp...

    • 4 months ago
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