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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (31267)	6/18/2008 8:16:00 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

Against school choice, puts kids in elite private school: Obama's kids go to the Un of Chicago's Lab School. "It is affiliated with the University of Chicago, and about half the students have a parent who is an employee of the university (and thereby receive a discount off the full tuition, normally as much as $20,000 per year).[1] It is considered one of the top preparatory schools in the United States, reflected in the Wall Street Journal's findings that the school is amongst the top five feeder institutions in the nation for elite colleges . en.wikipedia.org He believes in the public schools for other peoples kids. His go to one of the best private schools in the country. School choice for him, not for everyone. Kind of hypocritical and elitist imo. ----------------------------------------------------------- TAPPER: You talked about the need to change the status quo in education today. OBAMA: Right. TAPPER: But…proponents of school choice say that the best way to change the status quo is to give parents, inner-city parents a choice. Why not? OBAMA: Well, the problem is, is that, you know, although it might benefit some kids at the top, what you’re going to do is leave a lot of kids at the bottom. We don’t have enough slots for every child to go into a parochial school or a private school. And what you would see is a huge drain of resources out of the public schools. So what I’ve said is let’s foster competition within the public school system. Let’s make sure that charter schools are up and running. Let’s make sure that kids who are in failing schools, in local school districts, have an option to go to schools that are doing well. But what I don’t want to do is to see a diminished commitment to the public schools to the point where all we have are the hardest-to-teach kids with the least involved parents with the most disabilities in the public schools. That’s going to make things worse, and we’re going to lose the commitment to public schools that I think have been so important to building this country. TAPPER: So it would help some kids, but overall it would be bad for the system? OBAMA: I think it would be overall bad for most kids. Message 24684451