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14. OK ... I am mistaken

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 08:23 AM

Dec 2012

The fathers who "own" corporations with a "boardroom" and pools of "secretaries" with masters degrees is merely upper middle class.

These upper middle class people can "make a phone call" and get people into "any college of thier choice". I was barely out of school in '85, I do not remember all of these students getting into schools that could not read and write properly. Was it some special school? What was the name of it?

Right.

Again, people were spending good money to send thier children to non public schools to get a worse education?

That is what you are selling?

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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