http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/the-rantings-of-a-pta-mom/index.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
So it is with huge grief-filled disappointment that I discovered
that the Obamas send their children to the University of Chicago
Laboratory School (by 5th grade, tuition equals $20,286 a year). The
school’s Web site quotes all that ridiculous John Dewey nonsense
about developing character while, of course, isolating your children
from the poor. A pox on them and, while we’re at it, a pox on John
Dewey! I’m sick to death of those inspirational Dewey quotes
littering the Web sites of $20,000-plus-a-year private schools, all
those gentle duo-tone-photographed murmurings about “building
critical thinking and fostering democratic citizenship” in their
cherished students, living large on their $20,000-a-year island.
Meanwhile, Joseph Biden, the Amtrak senator, standing up boldly for
the right to be a Roman Catholic, appears to have sent all three
children to the lovely looking Archmere Academy in Delaware.
Archmere’s Web site notes some public school districts allow
Archmere students to use public school buses. Well, isn’t that great
— your tax dollars at work in the great state of Delaware because
with $18,000 a year in tuition, they can’t afford their own buses.
Then again, a spot of happy news for the Democrats: not only did
John McCain’s four children attend elite private schools in Arizona,
but collective donations to their children’s private schools between
2001 and 2006, totaled $500,000.
And yes, I know I appear to be ranting on like a pit bull without
lipstick, which brings me to the final nail in the coffin in this
sorry election year. As a Democrat I am horrified that Sarah Palin
is the one who snagged the deeply profound — and absolutely ignored
by professional smart people — emotional real estate of “P.T.A.
mother.” I too am, in fact, not just “my kids’ mom” but their Title
I Los Angeles public school P.T.A. secretary. This unheard female
howl is, for better or worse, what Ms. Palin has set out to tap
into; it is real, and I am sick that we’ve let the Republicans
charge this ground.
Sarah Palin’s children went to what looks like a humble little
public school: Iditarod Elementary on Wasilla Fishhook Road. The
school’s score on www.greatschools.net is a 4. That’s a lot of
street cred, for a gun-totin’, snow-mobilin’ creationist-lovin’ lady.
--ravi
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