Posted on 08/12/2008 6:51:10 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
When Barack Obama was young and poor but lucky, he received a scholarship to Honolulu's prestigious Punahou School, an elite private K-12 school where tuition now tops $16,000 a year. Today, Sen. Obama sends his two daughters to a private school in Chicago that costs $15,528 a year - for kindergarten.
And yet our presumptive president disses school choice because, while "it might benefit some kids at the top," it "leaves a lot of kids at the bottom."
We know that's how "progressives" garner ringing endorsements from the National Education Association, the teachers union whose core mission is protecting public schools from competition.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Obama - himself a poster child for the efficacy of school choice - has a unique chance to invigorate the public-private debate in education. Instead, he panders to teacher unions by expressing disdain for the “tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice.”
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/news/s_582247.html?source=rss&feed=30
From http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303347424914951 :
“Obama’s daughters, ... attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. There, tuition ranges from $15,528 for kindergarten to $20,445 for high school.”
How can he stand his rich self? He must feel so guilty
How can he stand his rich self? He must feel so guilty
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