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Send Your Kid to Private School? You Suck
Newser ^ | 08/29/2013 | By Kevin Spak

Posted on 08/29/2013 10:08:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

(Newser) – Do you send your kids to private school? Then congratulations: "You are a bad person," Allison Benedikt argues in Slate. "Not bad like murder bad—but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid bad. So pretty bad." Her reasoning is simple: if everyone were invested in public schools—and not just monetarily invested, "but real flesh-and-blood-offspring" invested—they would get better. Involved parents can make a huge difference. Yes, your kid may not get as excellent an education. "Take a deep breath and live with that."

"If you can afford private school," even just barely, "chances are that your spawn will be perfectly fine at a crappy public school." They have support at home, and a family with resources—"the exact kind of family that can help your crappy public school become less crappy." You want a fostering creative environment, small class sizes, individual student attention? So do the poor people down the street. "Send your kids to school with their kids," and then fight to make that school better. Click for Benedikt's full column.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arth; doublestandard; education; leftismoncampus; liberty; public; publicschools; radicalleft; reeducationcenter; schoolchoice; schools; suck; thoughtcrime
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To: GeronL

Yes, it was intentional.


61 posted on 08/29/2013 11:37:57 AM PDT by henkster (If the Feds create an unlimited demand for bastard children, you get an unlimited supply of them.)
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To: Antoninus
I should insert my innocent kids into a bad educational environment rife with drugs, deviant sexual behavior, and violence to uphold some airy-fairy notion of the greater good?

You just described the only private school in my county. It's where the kids expelled from the public schools wind up - if their parents can afford it.

62 posted on 08/29/2013 11:39:19 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Of course we KNEW that people like the Obamas, Clintons, and Gores were bad people.


63 posted on 08/29/2013 11:54:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Another right wing attack on Obama.


64 posted on 08/29/2013 11:55:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: GeronL
sending your kid to public school is child abuse.

Comments like this, and "smoking or drinking or (fill in the blank) around kids is child abuse" does nothing but diminish the term - just like leftists slinging around the term racism.

sending your kid to private school shoes you have been paying some attention

Not where I live, that's where the public school rejects end up.

65 posted on 08/29/2013 12:09:51 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: henkster
Too many parents have abdicated the responsiblity of this basic function of parenting.

Exactly! Thankfully, I don't know too many parents like that and most of my daughter's friends also have parents instilling conservative principles into their children, as we are doing with ours.

66 posted on 08/29/2013 12:17:01 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

My wife is the new principal of the Catholic School that both of my children went to. Today was the first day of classes. I couldn’t be more proud!


67 posted on 08/29/2013 12:22:52 PM PDT by folkquest (I plan on being cranky for the next 4 years. Hope to crack a political smile at the midterms!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good to know. We home school.


68 posted on 08/29/2013 12:29:50 PM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, I guess I suck then. Boy, she really told me. (/s)


69 posted on 08/29/2013 12:32:59 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Most of the people working in DC send their kids to private school above a certain GS level.

Amazing how true it is that liberalism is a derangement.


70 posted on 08/29/2013 12:34:31 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Responsibility2nd

Had a coworker tell me it was “evil” to send my child to a religious school. She said if you don’t like the public school, save up and move to a “better” district.


71 posted on 08/29/2013 12:44:18 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum
Oh wow!

Maybe it is the “religious” part of the private school decision that she found so bigotedly wrong?

The pogroms are coming. Christians have already been fired from their jobs because the ( gasp!) are “bigoted” Christians.

Next, step re-education camps, martyrdom ( possibly already happening in the U.S.) and secret religious meetings in the basements of very trusted followers of Christ. .

72 posted on 08/29/2013 12:47:59 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: Responsibility2nd

Tell you what, find me a public school that starts Spanish classes in kindergarten (to non-native speakers), that has weekly memory verses and trips to chapel, that requires you to sign a letter of commitment of parental involvement and holds you to it, that kicks out kids that are troublemakers, that provides a quality education with a God-centered world view, that has no LBGTABCXYZ teaching or clubs or speakers or other crap, that has a student pastor, that doesn’t teach middle schoolers how to put a condom on a banana, that respects parents’ rights, and that isn’t beholden to the liberal agenda of the NEA/democrats/state/satan, then maybe we’ll talk. Until then, the only time my child sets foot in one of your government schools is when he goes with me to vote, assumedly, against your politician of choice.


73 posted on 08/29/2013 1:01:07 PM PDT by tnlibertarian (Was Ted Cruz born by c-section? If so, he's not a 'natural born' citizen.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Home schooling has gotten so popular that the state of Texas now offers an online homeschooling program - complete with commercials about how it is a solution to scheduling problems. As if scheduling, instead of curriculum, was the main reason.


74 posted on 08/29/2013 2:43:57 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: BenLurkin

“I forget...is is Slate or is it Salon...which publishes from a mental institution?”

ROTFLMAO

(thank you)

IMHO


75 posted on 08/30/2013 4:58:55 AM PDT by ripley
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To: CrappieLuck

“Predictable and tiring, these liberals are.”

More exhausting than tiring.

IMHO


76 posted on 08/30/2013 5:04:41 AM PDT by ripley
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To: folkquest

Congratulations!


77 posted on 08/30/2013 5:37:38 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: oldenuff2no
Dear oldenuff2no,

“Home school is another alternative but there should be a price to pay for the failures that occur there too. At the end of every school year each home schooled child should be tested in an independent facility to make sure they have been taught to grade level. If they pass their parents/teachers should have a monetary reward. If they fail the parent/teacher should face a fine.”

As government schools are pretty much an unmitigated failure, I'd suggest that the government clean up its own act before trying to infringe on the rights of homeschoolers.

Get back to me when you propose to punish public school teachers whose charges fail to progress sufficiently, as judged against standards derived from the typical success of homeschoolers, including loss of job, forfeiture of assets, and prison terms.

Government has no business sitting in judgement of homeschoolers. It is homeschoolers who should judge the public schools, and especially their near-universally incompetent teaching personnel.


sitetest

78 posted on 08/30/2013 5:38:57 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

My wife spent 15 years working in public schools in Atlanta (Gwinnett) and when it came time for our kids to enter school she quit and we now have them in a private Christian school. We pay a crapload of money for it but given what she experienced in the war zone of public school it is totally worth every penny.

This dumbass author is telling parents that they are bad people for not sacrificing their child for the great good. That is, quite simply, an evil thing to say.


79 posted on 08/30/2013 5:57:16 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: oldenuff2no

You used the word “should” a lot in your post. “Should” inherently means there is a standard being applied, which begs the question of why the standard has any authority.

By biblical standards, the gov’t SHOULD keep its nose out of the affairs of the family, which SHOULD have full say over the education of its children.

If no schooling is the choice of the family, no one else has a right to force a different approach on them.


80 posted on 08/30/2013 6:05:02 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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