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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
~Jonathan Swift.
I'm very disappointed when I read something like this from Leonie Haimson. Apparently Gotham Schools has seen fit to compare her to Michelle Rhee. This is because she, like Rhee, has chosen to place one of her children in private school. In this space, you have not seen criticism of people for choosing private school for their children. You have seen criticism of people who choose private school for their children and force somethinginferior on our children.
~Jonathan Swift.
I'm very disappointed when I read something like this from Leonie Haimson. Apparently Gotham Schools has seen fit to compare her to Michelle Rhee. This is because she, like Rhee, has chosen to place one of her children in private school. In this space, you have not seen criticism of people for choosing private school for their children. You have seen criticism of people who choose private school for their children and force somethinginferior on our children.
How dare they?
For example, people like Michelle Rhee, Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein send their kids to elite schools with small class sizes. For their kids, that sort of education is important. Yet our kids should sit in large classes while their teachers are vilified. No excuses. Learning disability? No English? Too bad for you. Fire the teachers, close the schools, and salt the earth so nothing will ever grow there. Neighborhood schools? What's a neighborhood?
The schools they choose do not test kids to death. Yet, these hypocrites think our kids should do nothing but
