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Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil

theodp writes "Slate's Allison Benedikt is ruffling some feathers with her recent manifesto, If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person. 'Not bad like murderer bad,' Benedikt writes, '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.' If your local school stinks and you send your child there, Benedikt explains, 'I bet you are going to do everything within your power to make it better.'"

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  1. Re:Oh, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oy vey, you're real bad goy...

    If you don't send your child to our public Marxist indoctrination camps... I mean public schools... then you will be getting a knock on your door by the DHS! Don't you goyim know it's for your own good!

  2. kandy by kandylandy666 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    my friend's sister-in-law makes $78 an hour on the internet. She has been fired for 8 months but last month her check was $14025 just working on the internet for a few hours. their explanation.......WWW.Rush64.COM

  3. Re:Oh, really? by flyneye · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'd like to add that public schools were ruined long before people began fleeing to private schools.
    There were many contributors, not among the least, special interest groups that brought safety, neutrality, sensitivity, and removed academic competitiveness, discipline,morals, while removing some cultures religions while promoting others through political correctness and merely replaced sacred with secular religion.
    Focus has shifted from educating a growing workforce and future leadership to creating passive cattle. Don't even let me get started on the absolute farce of unionized educators and the concept of tenure.... Pay the worthless bastards what they are worth and pay the excellent teachers like sultans! Work out or GET OUT!
    I'm sick of paying taxes to babysit all the future losers and welfare recipients just to build up the left wing of the Repubmocrat tyranny. Make public schools at least the crap they were in the 70s, reinstate SPANKING ; K-12 and totally overhaul the textbooks. Quit dragging down a class of intelligent children to cater to a lowest common denominator. Leave the little bastard behind to catch up. The world needs ditchdiggers and janitors too. Give the average , at least an average chance to get an education so they can feed themselves and their families, maybe even make a contribution to society besides representing collateral on Chinese loans.

    Yes, Allison Benedikt you are an ignorant cunt and you should expand your mind instead of your mouth and ass before going to press.
    But, on the bright side you are a fine example of what went wrong. Behold The Mongus!

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  4. Re:She is not wrong by gweihir · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A cheap attempt at manipulation. Of course you can be altruistic some times when it is not convenient and still be egoistical at some other times. It is the balance that is key. Your simplistic black&white view of the world is what blinds you. In fact, I think you are trying to manipulate yourself into believing what you just said, despite its rather obvious flaws.

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  5. Re:She is not wrong by gweihir · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The problem here is that you make it all-or-nothing. Sure, you can give something from your kid, nobody ever talked about "all". And sure, you can make it less than things of lesser priority too you. And you can also make it less by actually fighting for the public school to be come better.

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  6. Re:Oh, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > I'm sorry, I can't agree with most of that reply.

    Then just say you don't agree. No need to get womanish about it and preface it with "I'm sorry".

    HTH