The Miseducation of America’s Elites
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The Miseducation of America’s Elites
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#2Vote with your wallet and leave. If you can afford a school like that, you can afford to leave.
I don’t know why anyone cares to be labeled a racist anymore considering the term has lost almost all meaning.
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#3The price of four or five kids could easily cover the pay of a private teacher/tutor. It seems like the ideal learning environment. I'm probably missing the point of going there in the first place.
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#4The price of four or five kids could easily cover the pay of a private teacher/tutor. It seems like the ideal learning environment. I'm probably missing the point of going there in the first place.
Socialization with a particular community is the primary value private schools provide.
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#5> Parents say that it is a school where giving more gets you more. Big donors get invitations to special dinners, and, most importantly, time and attention from the people in charge. Meantime, their children are taught radical-chic politics, which, of course, do not involve anything actually substantively radical, like redistributing the endowment.
This is the most hilarious part of all to me. This ideology is being pushed by the richest, most elite elements of left-wing society but they have substituted actual reform (i.e. redistributing their wealth and social prestige) with absurdist speech codes and manners that the middle and lower classes don't bother learning (because it's fucking stupid and they don't have the time). It's a way of preventing non-insiders from becoming public figures and rising up, because the moment anyone says anything publicly they can be brought down for violating some bizarre -ism rule.
I think the core group that actually believes this nonsense is pretty small, although some are using it tactically to destroy superiors and rise quickly. There is definitely an element of self-sorting going on where the woke-est people get eliminated from groups (social and business) because they are insufferable and exhausting to deal with.
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#6I've encountered this sort of ideology before in education. My plan is to send my children to Chinese public schools in Shanghai. They will live with relatives.
They will obtain a better education, better peers, with none of this article's indoctrination at a cheaper cost.
I will not risk my (white) children believing they are inferior to anyone else in academics.
I do not trust the American education system to bring them up. I have seen my (white) relatives learn they are inferior to their (asian) peers in the American system. I have seen my (white) relatives either buy into the American education system's ideology and also I've seen them reject it in its entirety.
This must be avoided at all costs.
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#7For those not up-to-date, the article covers "cultural Marxism" and "intersectionalism" in schools today. It's not exaggerating about anything.
LA is one of the worst areas because getting cancelled means certain loss of your job and any friends, both inside and outside your industry.
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#9What the parents are really paying for is their children making contacts with other children of the future nomenklatura.
If you truly want a good education for your kids, move to Finland.
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#10Sweet. Unsourced claims in a magazine published by the Manhattan Institute.
Well I'm convinced.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Instit...