She Won't Defend 'Indefensible'
Diane Abbott, a Labor minister in Britain's Parliament and member of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs is being criticized for sending her son to a private school costing $17,000 a year. Abbott says it was an "agonizing" decision to send her 12-year-old son to a private school, the BBC reports. "It's absolutely true that it's inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a private, fee-paying school," Abbott tells the BBC. "I've always believed that private schools prop up the class structure of society. It's inconsistent, it's indefensible and that's why I haven't sought to defend it."
Diane Abbott, a Labor minister in Britain's Parliament and member of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs is being criticized for sending her son to a private school costing $17,000 a year. Abbott says it was an "agonizing" decision to send her 12-year-old son to a private school, the BBC reports. "It's absolutely true that it's inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a private, fee-paying school," Abbott tells the BBC. "I've always believed that private schools prop up the class structure of society. It's inconsistent, it's indefensible and that's why I haven't sought to defend it."
Charles Mims
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