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no_hypocrisy

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10. I was there. He told me. It was 1985 before republicans stopped

Reply to Lurker Deluxe (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 26, 2012, 04:09 PM

Dec 2012

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telling the truth.

To distinguish your portrayal of the student body, it wasn't "uber-rich", just merely upper upper middle class/nouveau riche.

To specify what happened: The Headmaster told me that the fathers would make phonecalls to get some kids admitted to the college of their choice. If the kids were beyond hope for college, they'd go straight into the boardroom as a junior executive.

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why education is no longer the great equalizer [View all] xchrom Dec 2012 OP

Oh I agree no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #1

And that is exactly the reason many of use EC Dec 2012 #3

morlochs and eloi phantom power Dec 2012 #7

**cough**bullshit**cough** Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #9

I was there. He told me. It was 1985 before republicans stopped no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #10

OK ... I am mistaken Lurker Deluxe Dec 2012 #14

The school is defunct now. no_hypocrisy Dec 2012 #15

We stopped trying to create a well-informed citizenry baldguy Dec 2012 #2

k/r marmar Dec 2012 #4

K&R woo me with science Dec 2012 #5

That was just the meme du-jour by the corporatists. It has since outlived its usefulness to them Populist_Prole Dec 2012 #6

not the equalizer in terms of wealth, but the equalizer in terms of power CreekDog Dec 2012 #8

never was. a few proles making it into the ranks of the elite doesn't make education an equalizer. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #11

would you say being uneducated makes one just as powerful? CreekDog Dec 2012 #12

in some ways yes, in some ways not. if by 'uneducated' you mean not having a college education. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #13