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Posted on 07/18/2006 11:24:14 AM PDT by george76
The Times report says “Children in public schools generally performed as well or better in reading and mathematics than comparable children in private schools.”
The actual study says, “In..both reading and mathematics, students in private schools achieved at higher levels than students in public schools.”
The only point at which parity is reached is in comparing poor children in public schools with poor children in private schools.
Which is hilarious because thanks to the Times’s hatred of school choice, there are no poor kids in private schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at polipundit.com ...
by Greg Gutfeld
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-gutfeld/ny-times-is-stupider-than_b_25189.html
I hope that I am doing this correctly.
I found the story with Polipundit and worked from there.
Here is the NYT piece referenced :
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/education/15report.htm
At least they don't have to worry about how the private schools are spending their tax money. Which reminds me...why do they even care about private schools when participation and donations are completely voluntary? Don't they have enough problems in the public schools to report on?
So either the Times tainted their view of the report to gain the desired outcome, or the paper's reporter and her editors all went to public schools...
As it happens, I was told that Pinch Sulzberger's family's school of choice is Fieldston, a K-12 operation. Annual tuition: Just under $30,000 a year -- a lot for what the Times claims is generally an inferior education.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-gutfeld/ny-times-is-stupider-than_b_25189.html
"why do they even care about private schools when participation and donations are completely voluntary?"
Because for every child that goes to private schools, public schools lose about $20,000 per year.
The NEA union bosses and their friends at the NY Slimes are against vouchers.
If vouchers went to poor and middle class families, then some of these families would choose non government and non union schools for their children's education.
Thus the union bosses would get less money from union dues as many teachers would op-out of the union for other choices.
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Isn't that offset somewhat by the number of taxpayers who send their children to private schools (or don't even have children!) and still have to pay property taxes to support the public schools? I'm honestly not complaining, but I don't get a break/refund on my property taxes just because my kids go to private school. They get my money but don't have to educate my kids. That doesnt' sound so bad.
It is a great deal for the government.
We pay high property taxes for services that we never use.
There are poor kids in private schools. They are there on scholarship.
You are correct.
I should have said more poor and/or middle class parents could have more school choices.
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And while we are on the subject, I had a chance today to hit the affirmative action wackos in the chops without fear of reprisal.
We were discussing a program we would like to run and an administrator (gasp) said: I don't think affirmative action is doing much.
I live in the inner-city and said: none of the people where I live benefit one little teeny tiny bit from affirmative action. They don't have the backgrounds, they don't have the money and they don't have the support. They can't get in the door of the Affirmative Action Express, much less get a seat.
And no one said a d*mned thing. You don't get moments like that very often in higher education.
Felt good.
;-)
They should have more choices but would rather vote for RATS who know better.
WHORE(S) --- NYT
LYING (RATS) --- NYT
PROPAGANDISTS --- NYT
COMMIES --- NYT
ANTI-AMERICAN SLEEZOIDS --- NYT
PECKERHEADS WHO CANNOT SLEEP AT NIGHT --- NYT
............ 'nuf said.
Me fail English....that's unpossible!!
LOL.
That is good.
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