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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school parents should feel uncomfortable about the two tiers of education we are supporting. It is intellectually dishonest to act like we are trying to do anything but give our kids a leg up on the backs of others. Some people shrug and say so what - that’s life and I think that is at least reasonably honest. But to act morally superior because you decided to send your kids to GDS over a more conservative private school is reprehensible. Democrats are in many ways no different than Republicans. Everyone on top wants to preserve the status quo and why wouldn’t they. All she is doing is throwing the curtains open and I think these are uncomfortable truths we all need to face.[/quote]

How is it more honest to move out to a pricey suburb with high-quality schools? Please explain. [/quote]

There is a huge difference. Not sure how you don’t get it. Like the title of the article - the resources available at the wealthy private school are at an obscene level. As the difference in wealth in society grows bigger and bigger, these schools are able to hoard a vast array of resources for their privileged families. Way more extreme than the comparison between a wealthy public and a poor public. The fancy NE public schools have billion dollar endowments for a student body of approximately 1500 students. I guess if you don’t want to get it, you won’t get it. Much easier to dismiss reality than actually admitting to it. [/quote]

Pointing to a few extremely wealthy boarding schools in no way describes “private schools” in general.

I have, at best, a small dog in this fight. My kid attends a lovely private school on substantial financial aid. Would I love it if our neighborhood school didn’t suck? Of course. But railing against private education isn’t helpful either. If private education didn’t exist than all the wealthy families would just move out of the city and into the suburbs, and the families in my neighborhood would be no better off.

Education isn’t a zero sum game. Improving public schools isn’t something that can only happen at the expense of private schools. If there were no such thing as private schools wealthy families would just cluster at an even smaller number of schools than they do now. The good public schools are already inaccessible to the less-wealthy. Do you really think that banning private schools would make that any different?

I’m just baffled about the claim that these schools are  “hoarding resources”. Rich people gonna rich. Closing down private schools won’t change that. There’s not a finite number of teachers, or a finite amount of education. As a society we can make more teachers. We can produce more education. It’s not like you can somehow magically reallocate it from Dalton to wherever. [/quote]

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