You act like Hurricane Katrina didn’t 100% privatize New Orleans’ school system. I mean sure these are offshoot discussions. But please tell me how we should be yelling at people without masks.Originally Posted by NachoMan
If your thing is misrepresenting positions, you’re doing a bang up job.
I'm sure New Orleans public schools were just fantastic pre-Katrina, too.
They’re even worse. But hey they’re privatized. That’s all that matters, people making less per hour. Privatizers got the Black teachers out and replaced them with Teach for America carpetbaggers. De-professionalize and cheapen the profession. Then blame public education when kids’ quality of learning diminishes.
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Rojo (07-20-2020)
Private schools are going to get pounded in this by the way. Going to be tough to sell people on spending $20k to send their kid to virtual St. X.
M2 (07-20-2020),Revering4Blue (07-21-2020)
What did he misrepresent? That was basically everything you and especially Rojo posted.
What would you say.....ya do here?
This is absolutely false. I'm a NGO fundraiser who's most recent job was for a posh private school. I couldn't believe the money that flowed in. I'm out of work now and thinking most of the NGO's I worked for won't come back. My fallback reassurance is that I can work for private schools who's parents/alumni won't let them die. I don't relish this, I believe in public education and would ban private schools if I could, but I do need to make a living.
I'm sure that's true of the best private schools with the wealthiest/most loyal alumni. But there are a ton of private schools that aren't that lucky.
I'm all for people who prefer public schools. Banning private schools? That's about the worst idea I've ever heard. And Donald Trump has been President for 3.5 years. I'm rethinking my write in vote for you!
We instituted this Covid regime based on the idea that it would kill millions. Now that it clearly isn't, a lot of people haven't altered there thinking about how to handle it.
Who's got a firm grip?
Do you recall the "Polar Vortex" that Putin was going to unleash on America or the Sonic Ray the Cubans made out of crickets or the Russian Beluga Whale Spy?
Do you also recall how our government lied us into a deadly war in Iraq?
Ok, that was hyperbole. People should be able to give their kids a sectarian education if they wish. But the school I worked at was $48K a year. Can you imagine? And I was in the fundraising department that was hitting them for more. I worked for 15 years at a small environmental NGO that sweated over $1K donations and these parents were writing $100K checks for a new building. Jesus.
I learned that private schools don't call themselves "private" schools, but "independent" schools. Yeah, "independent". I've been applying at "independent" schools as well as any other NGO I can find and can tell you that all these schools like to believe they're really hyper-woke. In reality, they exist to coddle and propel the scions of wealth, but they pretend to be promoters of diversity or whatever. They let a few black kids in, your over-priviledged soul is saved. Do ten Hail Ta Nehisi Coats and vote Democrat.
You would think, based on what we are seeing of the online teaching going on right now. But what we are seeing right now is what the public schools can do in a pinch, at the last minute, with no budget. This means putting a lot of the teaching on the parents.
Many educators have been developing online teaching programs for K-12 for over a decade, and they are pretty good, to be honest. They are expensive, and actually require more teachers than in person teaching (it's much harder to control an online 35 kid classroom than a real one, so FCB's claim that going fully online means fewer teachers is wrong) and many private schools are using them currently. There are even some that are 100% online. Here is one example:
https://laurelsprings.com/about-our-school/
Maybe not for anyone right now, but they keep improving, and I am betting many parents would gladly shell out $20K to send their kids to one. The one I linked is $9K-13K a year.
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
My son went to preschool in one of those "independent" schools, but my experience has otherwise been with Catholic schools, which are a different animal. And I'm guessing our independent schools out here are a bit different than the ones you're applying at as a great deal of the donors to be called have the last name Koch or have paychecks signed by him.
Lollllll
The idea private schools are full of Democrats is hilarious. Where do you honestly get this stuff?
What would you say.....ya do here?
San Francisco, I think?
We have a school here in Wichita literally called The Independent School, and it's the most expensive one in town and quite liberal (by the standards of the city). But there are more Christian private schools by far. Not full of Democrats.
Last edited by Boston Red; 07-21-2020 at 12:11 AM.
Rojo (07-21-2020)
Christ, you need to get out more.
Last edited by Rojo; 07-21-2020 at 12:32 AM.
This is the school I worked at, with the really terrible name.
https://www.college-prep.org/
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