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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 06:53 AM Jul 2019

Bill Barr's father hired Jeffrey Epstein, a 20yo college drop-out, as a school-teacher.

https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

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Bill Barr's father hired Jeffrey Epstein, a 20yo college drop-out, as a school-teacher. (Original Post) DetlefK Jul 2019 OP
Seems a little young underpants Jul 2019 #1
I keep reading math genius Johnny2X2X Jul 2019 #2
What makes the hire suspicious to me is the fact that The Dalton School has the no_hypocrisy Jul 2019 #3
Perhaps Epstein's procurement and blackmail activities have always been his primary career. tanyev Jul 2019 #4
this ProfessorPlum Jul 2019 #5

Johnny2X2X

(19,052 posts)
2. I keep reading math genius
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 07:24 AM
Jul 2019

What defines him as a math genius at 20 years old? A math genius is not just a 20 year old doing grad level math, it’s someone contributing to the field by creating new ways to solve new problems.

Math genius sounds like an excuse for his being given so much. I suspect what he was a genius at was sales.

no_hypocrisy

(46,083 posts)
3. What makes the hire suspicious to me is the fact that The Dalton School has the
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 07:30 AM
Jul 2019

reputation for being highly prestigious. It's been around for decades and a school meant for the children of NYC's "Society."

My mother taught there. She had a bachelors from Barnard AND a masters from WELLESLEY just to teach PHYSICAL EDUCATION in 1950. (Lee Remick, the actress, was one of her students.)

There's something wrong with a school like Dalton hiring a DROP-OUT WITHOUT a degree to teach mathematics. I don't care that he was a genius or not. For Dalton, it just seems unlikely.

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