"The president of the United States has never found a public school good enough for his own children... he tells us 'be paitent, I'll fix those public schools', while his kids attend private"
Posted Sep 3, 2014, 5:43 PM UTC
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Well that's pretty shitty, /mod/Jakeable just removed my previous comment instead of just replying to it or ignoring it.
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Yes, and the president is paying for them to attend - unlike voucher supporters, who are asking me to subsidize private, often religious, educations.
Good to see you didn't even watch it...
Watched the first 5 minutes--I'm not going to sit through 20 minutes of a WSJ screed about black bootstraps yet again. The author interviewed seems amazingly ignorant of recent and past US history and so is not really worth my time.
In terms of the headline from the video: without consulting the internet, can you name the last president who, while in office, sent their kids to public schools?
These days, the Secret Service simply wouldn't allow it.
Wah... yes, it is much easier to just assume and criticize.
The Obama kids have always gone to private schools, way before he was president or even a politician of note. Don't blame it on the secret service.
The point, if you had bothered to actually watch it instead of jumping to conclusions, is that some private schools outperform public schools... so with your "he pays for it", I guess you are saying that decent education is just for the wealthy???
Oh, and how do you stand on Hobby Lobby?
I generally choose not watch things that get it wrong in the first five minutes, as this guy did. I admit he may have said things that were good later, but when the whole presumption of the discussion, laid out in the opening minutes, is one that I fundamentally disagree with, that I think is erroneous, experience tells me I'm not going hear much that surprises me.
Secondly, I never said "he pays for it." If you are going to chastise me for not suffering through the entire 20 minute interview, you should at least read my short reply carefully enough to hear what I have said.
Third, of course some private schools outperform publics--the ones with money. Money put into schools generally means better education contrary to what you TPers would have us believe. The entire history of public education in the US is complex but the speaker in the video glosses over complexity in the opening minutes with lots of screed and opinion.
Finally, what does Hobby Lobby have to do with anything?
I believe you are referring to the Paul Ryan plan.
Unreasonable rhetoric from Nick Gillespie is a waste of time.
After all, sending the children of PoTUS to a public school is an obvious and unreasonable risk for national security.
If you are going to comment, bother to watch it. The Obamas have always sent their kids to private schools, well before he was president... that is the point.