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

Posted by samzenpus on from the price-of-a-good-education dept.

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. Private School Evil? by atari2600a · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like an really cool place.

    1. Re:Private School Evil? by Mitchell314 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just enrolled there myself. I'm taking Lair Design 140, Manic Laughter 210, Hero Killing 112, and Physical Education 100.

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    2. Re:Private School Evil? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hero Killing 112

      I took that class and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone having any interest in executing heroes. They teach you everything about constructing high tech execution machines, but when I asked the teacher why a bullet to the head wouldn't be more time and cost effective I got shouted at.

    3. Re:Private School Evil? by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hero Killing 112

      I took that class and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone having any interest in executing heroes. They teach you everything about constructing high tech execution machines, but when I asked the teacher why a bullet to the head wouldn't be more time and cost effective I got shouted at.

      The worst bit is having to memorize your entire evil plot so you can soliloquize in front of the hero, while you think you have him/her utterly at your mercy, so they can then make an improbably escape and foil your plot.

      But then, it can't be all milk and cookies at the hero academy, having to practice your improbable escapes and practice remembering entire evil plots, so you don't leave anything important out while foiling them. Nothing more embarrassing than finding that female reporter rotting away in a dungeon cell several weeks later, when all you had to do was rip the door off its hinges.

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    4. Re:Private School Evil? by terrab0t · · Score: 3, Funny

      They had better cover Peter's Evil Overlord List or your career is as doomed as all that came before it.

  2. I like her logic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why send your kids to school at all?

    I bet if you sent your kids to the ghetto, you'd do everything you could to improve it!

  3. Re:Oh, really? by fche · · Score: 3, Funny

    Plus the bonus for both-cooperating is purely hypothetical.