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Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
My child is not an iPhone. I'm not sending her to the cheapest school I can find, I'm sending her to the best school I can afford. There is no reason why you can't have quality public schools, but you have to have the equipment, the computers, the books and the resources for children to learn.
You need a lot more than that, and I'm not talking about $$$
Yes you do, but when children don't have their own textbooks and have to share, or the school has no computers or labs for the kids, when teachers are having to buy classroom supplies out of their own pockets, how can you have quality education, even with good teachers.
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
They might have public transportation in Chicago, but what about in Prattville, AL?
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
Read more: Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
How much of your money are you willing to front in order to open a private school? I'm betting on zero.
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
How much of your money are you willing to front in order to open a private school? I'm betting on zero.
Me...nothing....there are professionals who will do it and are doing it now....the same people who started the private schools these politicians are sending their kids to...but now there will be more start ups....rather than one crappy school in a district where the kids can't escape...
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.So...you don't believe in School Choice.
I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
They might have public transportation in Chicago, but what about in Prattville, AL?
Those kids in Prattville.....will have vouchers.....and if their school isn't working, they can band together and hire their own teachers if they have to......or a group will come in and open a school in Prattville...since they will now be able to since the parents control the money......and aren't forced into a bad Prattville school.
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
OK. so why hasn't that happened where voucher programs already have existed?
Because it is not economically feasible.
Charter schools are considered public schools. When they fail, they taxpayer is on the hook for the costs but the people who run them have no responsibility to the taxpayers.
We aren't talking Charter schools...which again, are run by the same people who messed up the inner city schools...and there was an advocate for Charter Schools on the local radio show here in Chicago.....half of the top performing schools in Chicago are charter schools and they have to take kids without special selection...so you are even wrong on that count....
Vouchers will actually make schools accountable to the parents....which they aren't right now...because of the layers of insulation from the parent and the people making the decisions...if a school sucks under vouchers, the parents can leave...and go to another school..they are not trapped because they live in a certain neighborhood with a bad school.
Yeah, right! Let them take a few thousand dollar voucher and try to get into any one of those schools. First, they would not pass the entrance requirements.
You people are ridiculous sometimes!
The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
OK. so why hasn't that happened where voucher programs already have existed?
Because it is not economically feasible.
Charter schools are considered public schools. When they fail, they taxpayer is on the hook for the costs but the people who run them have no responsibility to the taxpayers.
We aren't talking Charter schools...which again, are run by the same people who messed up the inner city schools...and there was an advocate for Charter Schools on the local radio show here in Chicago.....half of the top performing schools in Chicago are charter schools and they have to take kids without special selection...so you are even wrong on that count....
Vouchers will actually make schools accountable to the parents....which they aren't right now...because of the layers of insulation from the parent and the people making the decisions...if a school sucks under vouchers, the parents can leave...and go to another school..they are not trapped because they live in a certain neighborhood with a bad school.
Solve your problems in Chicago and leave the rest of the country alone. That way, when the schools are hosed up, the district goes bankrupt or you have to have massive tax increases to pay for your screwing up the system, the rest of us will not have to suffer the same fate.
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.I believe in school choice for all American kids......even poor kids trapped in the very schools these democrats have destroyed.......that is why those poor kids should get vouchers for the full expense of their public education and should be able to attend the same schools the kids of these Senators go to......
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
They might have public transportation in Chicago, but what about in Prattville, AL?
Those kids in Prattville.....will have vouchers.....and if their school isn't working, they can band together and hire their own teachers if they have to......or a group will come in and open a school in Prattville...since they will now be able to since the parents control the money......and aren't forced into a bad Prattville school.
There are not enough students in small towns to do any of those things, You just don't get it.
Hire their own teachers? What under-qualified person would accept such a position for the pittance they will be able to pay?
Those groups are only in your pipe dreams. People open private schools to make money. You can't do that with vouchers.
Just keep dreaming.
I read an article a while back about Chicago schools. It said their school day is 5 hours long. They compared it to another city, Austin, Tx I think. They figured that by time a student went K - 12, the kid in Austin received 2 1/2 - 3 years more instruction time than the kid in Chicago. What a mess.The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
OK. so why hasn't that happened where voucher programs already have existed?
Because it is not economically feasible.
Charter schools are considered public schools. When they fail, they taxpayer is on the hook for the costs but the people who run them have no responsibility to the taxpayers.
We aren't talking Charter schools...which again, are run by the same people who messed up the inner city schools...and there was an advocate for Charter Schools on the local radio show here in Chicago.....half of the top performing schools in Chicago are charter schools and they have to take kids without special selection...so you are even wrong on that count....
Vouchers will actually make schools accountable to the parents....which they aren't right now...because of the layers of insulation from the parent and the people making the decisions...if a school sucks under vouchers, the parents can leave...and go to another school..they are not trapped because they live in a certain neighborhood with a bad school.
Solve your problems in Chicago and leave the rest of the country alone. That way, when the schools are hosed up, the district goes bankrupt or you have to have massive tax increases to pay for your screwing up the system, the rest of us will not have to suffer the same fate.
Genius.....the Chicago school system is already bankrupt...they have a 750 million dollar pension payment due that they can't pay.....they are considering ending school 7 weeks early......
That is how government runs a school district....and they are raising taxes again too......
You have no idea how to save the schools because you have been trained to run a school the same way....
Yes...the democrats will condemn minority kids to hell holes for schools.......and happily send their own kids to private schools...from the salaries we pay them....
Well, well, well........the fake indian princess sent her kids to private schools....
Senators Opposed Vouchers Backer DeVos, Send THEIR Kids To Posh Private School
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat representing Minnesota who was once an unfunny comedian with bit parts on “Saturday Night Live,” has two children who attend The Dalton School in New York City — 1,018 miles from Minneapolis and 226 miles from Washington, D.C.
The cost of a single year of tuition for students in kindergarten through 12th grade at Dalton is $44,640. This amount, which represents slightly more than the average household income in the state of Alabama, is “among the lowest of our peer schools,” the posh Upper East Side school trumpets. On Friday, lunch at Dalton scrumptiously featured sustainable green tea salmon, anasazi bean salad, fresh organic papaya yogurt and a pasta bar with both marinara sauce and puttanesca sauce.
Dalton is most famous because its administration called off this year’s ice-skating party after a large group of parents refused to send their children to the Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park for political reasons. (RELATED: ‘Liberal Moms’ Make Fancypants Manhattan Prep School Cancel Ice Skating Party At Trump Rink)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, has a granddaughter who rubs shoulders with the children of movie stars at the trendy Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Tuition at Harvard-Westlake costs $35,900 each year. There’s also a $2,000 fee for new students.
Harvard-Westlake offers a bevy of amazing opportunities for students including study-abroad programs in Spain, France, China, Italy and India. There’s also the Mountain School, “an independent semester program that provides high school juniors the opportunity to live and work on an organic farm in rural Vermont.”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island and himself a private boarding school product, has two children. His daughter attended the Wheeler School, a coed day school in Providence where a single year of tuition for sixth grade through 12th grade currently costs $35,215.
Sixth graders at Wheeler spend a segment of the school year romping around at a 120-acre farm owned by the school. The “unique, place-based experience” includes “vigorous scientific leaf studies” and “examinations of poetry, art, and mathematical models deepened through the context of” the school-owned farm.
Whitehouse, who has owned stock in a for-profit charter school company, also sent his son to a St. George’s School, a private boarding school in a gorgeous hamlet on the seaside.
Annual tuition at St. George’s is currently $39,900. Boarding students pay $58,000.
St. George’s offers a special program which allows students to sail around the world for several week on a 69-foot sailboat “traveling in a grand loop from Rhode Island across to the Azores and Spain, through the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece, back to the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat representing New York and herself an alumna of the tony Emma Willard School, sends her two school-age children to Capitol Hill Day School, according to The Washington Post. Tuition at the private, progressive bastion currently runs $30,300.00 per year for sixth through eighth grades, $28,700.00 per year for first through fifth grades and $28,000.00 per year for preschoolers.
Instruction in French and Spanish begins in preschool at Capitol Hill Day School. Also, performing arts is a big deal. There are “operas based on children’s books,” for example, and the sixth graders put on a musical theater production.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat representing Connecticut, sent one of his four children to Brunswick School, a private, all-boys day school in Greenwich, according to the Connecticut Post. A year of high school tuition at Brunswick currently costs $40,450. Tuition for preschoolers costs $30,930 per year.
On Tuesday, grade school kids at Brunswick will enjoy a delicious lunch of barbecue antibiotic-free chicken sandwiches on Texas rolls.
Blumenthal sent another one of his kids to Greenwich Academy, an all-girls day school where high school tuition currently runs $41,890. A single year of prekindergarten at the private institution costs $37,470.
Tuesday’s lunch at Greenwich Academy includes potato leek soup, baked macaroni and cheese and braised red cabbage.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat representing New Hampshire, has two children. Her daughter attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the most notable fancypants private schools in the United States. Hassan’s husband, Thomas, was the principal of Phillips Exeter at the time. The cost for a year of tuition and fees at Phillips Exeter is currently $37,875. Boarding students pay $48,550.
The lunch menu at Phillips Exeter features “authentic recipes from around the world” and “more than 5,000 recipes in regular rotation.” Dinner selections for boarders include “grilled steak tips, fettuccine alfredo, palak paneer or quinoa with nuts.” Also, all dining staffers — “from chefs to dishwashers” receive “training in food allergens.”
Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat representing Pennsylvania, sent his daughters to Scranton Preparatory School, a private Jesuit school where a year of tuition costs $13,400. Casey is also an alumnus of Scranton Prep.
Every classroom at Scranton Prep offers cutting-edge technology and contains “the very latest in interactive instructional technology.” There’s also a very impressive 34,000-square-foot building dedicated to the arts and sciences which features “state-of-the-art science classrooms and laboratories as well as a magnificent theater that seats 875 people.”
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The charter schools will skim off the cream of the kids to help improve their test scores but the rest of the kids will be carefully screened to keep out the problem kids, or those who might not improve the test scores of the charters, or those with expensive handicaps, and the public schools will have that much less cash to deal with all the rest.
No....wrong.......vouchers give the parents power to choose schools.....and schools will open to get those vouchers.....you are thinking that only public schools will exist....you don't take into account new schools opening in response to the freedom the parents will have to send their kids to other schools...right now, the public school system is a monopoly, unless you are rich, you have to send you kid to the school in your district...or you move.....vouchers end that prison system.....and open up opportunities for new schools to open to compete, and actually educate children.
That you morons would want to trap these kids in schools that are not educating the Children now......is insane....these inner city schools are not educating these children...I repeat....these inner city schools are not education these children now......and you want them stuck in those schools for some insane reason....
Thousands line up to get into lotteries for Charter schools.....and you guys say the parents don't care......you are insane...and with vouchers...charter schools will just be one of many options for education kids...and the quality will go up, and the cost wil go down...
Just like your fucking I-Phone...
OK. so why hasn't that happened where voucher programs already have existed?
Because it is not economically feasible.
Charter schools are considered public schools. When they fail, they taxpayer is on the hook for the costs but the people who run them have no responsibility to the taxpayers.
We aren't talking Charter schools...which again, are run by the same people who messed up the inner city schools...and there was an advocate for Charter Schools on the local radio show here in Chicago.....half of the top performing schools in Chicago are charter schools and they have to take kids without special selection...so you are even wrong on that count....
Vouchers will actually make schools accountable to the parents....which they aren't right now...because of the layers of insulation from the parent and the people making the decisions...if a school sucks under vouchers, the parents can leave...and go to another school..they are not trapped because they live in a certain neighborhood with a bad school.
Solve your problems in Chicago and leave the rest of the country alone. That way, when the schools are hosed up, the district goes bankrupt or you have to have massive tax increases to pay for your screwing up the system, the rest of us will not have to suffer the same fate.
Genius.....the Chicago school system is already bankrupt...they have a 750 million dollar pension payment due that they can't pay.....they are considering ending school 7 weeks early......
That is how government runs a school district....and they are raising taxes again too......
You have no idea how to save the schools because you have been trained to run a school the same way....
Omg, the Dems are totally to blame? Kids would still be working under looms at 8 if the repubs had anything to do with it "Nothing more dangerous than a man with no doubts" seems like you have a steel shut mind. Ever do any advanced research where you have to examine all sides? Guess not.
What do you propose? Cabs from the inner city for everyone? Free fancy homes in all white suburbs for inner city parents? Such stupidity.
I guess they don't have public transportation in Chicago...right? Moron. And if parents have the money to spend on a school, new schools will open in their very neighborhood if the public school sucks......so they won't have to travel....
Giving the parents control over the money...that just drives you left wingers bat shit crazy......you are supposed to control them......right?
They might have public transportation in Chicago, but what about in Prattville, AL?
Those kids in Prattville.....will have vouchers.....and if their school isn't working, they can band together and hire their own teachers if they have to......or a group will come in and open a school in Prattville...since they will now be able to since the parents control the money......and aren't forced into a bad Prattville school.
There are not enough students in small towns to do any of those things, You just don't get it.
Hire their own teachers? What under-qualified person would accept such a position for the pittance they will be able to pay?
Those groups are only in your pipe dreams. People open private schools to make money. You can't do that with vouchers.
Just keep dreaming.
Twit...they will have the same amount they currently pay to not be educated in public schools....People open private schools to make money...and vouchers are that money...but unlike public schools, they will actually have to educate the children to get that money, they can't churn out class after class that can't read, write or do math...and then have the balls to demand a raise.....
