The Tipping Point: Most Americans No Longer Are Middle Class

NPR ^ | 09 Dec 2015 | Marilyn Geewax

[Mears]

“Public schools were designed to keep the little people in their places.”

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Unlike private schools that are friends of the “little people” like St. Paul’s,Sidwell Friends,and Deerfield Academy? You have GOT to be kidding.

You seem incapable of answering my original question. How are public schools to blame for the diminution of the middle class since 1971?

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[Original Lurker]

Public schools dumb people so they are incapable of handling the most basic skills required by any job traditionally geared towards historic middle class genre.

Public schools = stupid people, stupid voters..

[Mears]

“Public schools dumb people so they are incapable of handling the most basic skills required by any job traditionally geared towards historic middle class genre.”

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So when we had a strong middle class (50s,60s,70s?) everyone had been private school educated ?????????

Your argument makes absolutely no sense,in fact.it’s stupid.

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[Crucial]

I think you’re right for the majority of Americans history but America doesn’t develop minds like it used to thanks to the public school system and it has been disastrous for middle class workers.

[RipSawyer]

I consider all official figures as just so much smoke.