Oh, Caitlin...
Virtue signaling is all that has ever mattered.
Maybe they could fix the public schools, instead.
Oh, Caitlin...
Its jealousy pure and simple.
Caitlin Flanagan, FU.
The elites can still send their children to boarding schools in, in, hmmmmm, Russia, and China?
Anybody can get their kid a vastly superior education to public school - and for free. But you have to want it.
Khanacademy.org is one way. But there are many others.
Many of the elite private schools are as infected with the “woke” social justice nonsense as the public schools.
Here is a recent news article on Dalton and an “anti-racist” manifesto created by its teachers:https://www.foxnews.com/us/teachers-at-posh-nyc-school-release-8-page-anti-racism-manifesto-sparks-uproar-report
Envy is poisonous.
My children all went to “Blue Ribbon” Catholic schools since birth at a tremendous personal financial sacrifice.
The public schools in my area are excellent however just academic education is just a part of raising a child. The moral and ethical component is critical as well.
The public schools were lacking in this area.
Of course, your children can go to public school and as parents deliver this component as well (which we always reinforced at home) but the battle is more difficult.
Leading by example at home is the first step...
I’ve found that my “give-a-shit” meter is at an all-time low. I could care less what these rich people do to get their kids ahead. In the grand scheme of things, it’s probably better for our country to have striving A-types wanting to be doctors (maybe not lawyers), but otherwise high-speed contributing professionals - how is this bad?
Yeah every now and then some uber-rich family sneaks their mouth-breather dumb son into Harvard. Who cares.
I don’t care that dumb athletes that can dubk a basketball get into Duke either. I just don’t see the harm. Maybe a couple of deserving kids that wanted to go to Duke have to go to Tulane or Notre Dame instead. Cry me a river.
My family is not wealthy, but definitely successful mostly through hard work. Public school HS graduates have gone on to Harvard, M.I.T., Anapolis, Johns Hopkins, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Boston College...to name a few.
All coming from parents that made at most $150K a year combined. So certainly not poor or disadvantaged in any way.
I went the military route. Free college then 24 years as an officer. Nope, didn’t get rich, but no complaints. I have 3 sons that are on their way to college soon. I’m sure all will do fine. But I won’t lose any sleep if they can’t get into Harvard or Stanford. Nor will I care if some of their friends do. What I WON’T do is pay $50K for them to go to High School.
But some people do. Good on them. I guess I just don’t get this author’s point. Weird misplaced jealousy and liberal sickness. You may as well complain that rich people pay $5K per ticket to sit courtside at an NBA game. Good for them. I think that’s a colossal waste of money, but it’s THEIR money, not mine.
Harvard is a private school. Shut it down! SUNY Binghamton uber alles.
ML/NJ
The stupid author condemns an entire industry - private schools - ignoring that the vast majority of private schools have very little in common with the elite Manhattan private schools she criticizes.
If The Atlantic stops publishing, would anyone notice? The monkeys hitting typewriters might be unemployed, but they can go and write fiction... 😀
Private schools have now SERVED THEIR PURPOSE (hence this opening shot), which was to give Americans alternatives to the public schools, while the public schools got to work brainwashing the 90% of parents who send their kids to those schools. The parents who know what was going on were left with alternatives, so that they didn’t get involved with keeping this crap out of the schools - the Left needed those kids to stay out of the public schools, and enough of them did just that.
But, as the Democrats consolidate their lock on the country, it’s time for private schools to end, as they’re no longer needed. Home schooling, by the way, will simply be outlawed at the federal level, and that will be once they get control of the courts, later this year. Parents will then have NO CHOICE in schooling.
Just another ‘benefit’ of handing complete control of the country to the Democrats.
I always find it ironic when public school teachers send their own children to private schools. I think it should be mandatory that their children attend public schools. It might change their mindset.
my thought exactly. Likely all the ones that have kids. This idiot is probably 23 with no kids, or lesbian, or both.
Public schools are indefensible.