What about all that fairness doctrine and equality issues that lefties always use to bring up? I guess when it’s THEIR guys holding the lion’s share of the loot those rules don’t apply eh?
Is this a negative?
Read that again. I'll wait.....
This might be the stupidest statement ever recorded in print. Let me show you...
"People at the top just have so much income now that they’re easily able to spend more on... bananas, toilet paper, jewelry, automobiles, houses, etc."
wow!
Obama: Friend of the 1%
It’s not fair that some people choose to spend their money investing in their children’s education instead of on Air Jodans and Escalades.
There is a private school in Brentwood, TN that costs $38,000 per year to attend. I cannot imagine paying $38k to send my child to kindergarten.
Hmmmm I wonder if the Journ-O-List took into account that the “elite, private colleges” that the “rich” tend to favor also doubled down on their tuitions and fees? Thus, increasing the “spending” without really adding value to the education?
Might challenge the “journalist’s” premise ?
Over 15 years ago I was spending close to 5 grand apiece for my two kids to go to private grade school. I’m not rich. It was just a good investment. In them.
Maybe the author would like rich children to be required to play video games for at least 20 hours per week instead of studying to equalize opportunities.
Satire Harrison Bergeron is looking more and more real with this griping.
I would have to question how much the cost of education went up before believing the article.
If you’re paying professors and extra 50 grand a year, that would be reflected in the tuition.
The “greed” of the educators may be making it impossible for the middle class to pay tuition.
In addition, public schools, on average, are more expensive than private schools. The story focuses on a handful of elite private schools in the $30,000-plus range. Such schools do indeed exist, but they are atypical.
I live in DC. This year's Census Bureau report on public school financing showed that DC public schools have total revenues just shy of $30,000 per pupil. That is far in excess of the tuition at all but a handful of the local private schools, and is not far short of Sidwell Friends, etc. DC is the most expensive system in the country, of course, which just goes to show that money alone doesn't buy quality.
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It is? That's the purpose of education?
Dismantle the public school system.
So, if people have the income to afford a better education for their kids - is that something to be ashamed of?
Seems to me that these parents are choosing a better value than that of spending on vices or extravagant entertainment, clothes, etc. They ought to be applauded.
The Great Recession in 2007?
I’m still calling it the Great Obama Depression.
Education is expensive - but so is the alternative. If you are in high spirits and just have too much optimism let me refer you to an historic study that will be sure to take a lot of wind out of your sails (the link is l o n g so I’ll post at the end). The paper is called The Early Catastrophe. It’s a long read (required reading for a course I took long ago). Still good info. I have 3 children. I tell people I could have had 3 very nice houses but instead I have three very nice children each with a good education ;- ) We are not rich. Wife and I still pinch pennies but I have no regrets investing in my daughter and my 2 sons. More and more parents are going to have to take a very serious look at how to educate their children. There really are alternatives. It is a little bleak when you are struggling to put food on the table and roof over your head but there are some really good and interesting things happening in education that may help break open the strangle hold the left has in this arena and the failure public ed has turned out to be. The state of FL is making some baby steps in this area. Too much to go into here. Anyway, here’s the link:
People that can afford it send their kids to schools where they might have a chance to actually learn something useful? Shocking! President Beeblebrox needs to hear about this....no, wait....