Reply #39: It's about choices..... [View All]

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I'm not against private school. I went to private school. But it was a luxury my parents could afford. That's the problem. The clueless fucks on capital hill as you call them are listening to too many people like this who view themselves as getting hit hard because they can't afford to send their kids to private school AND do other nice things. The option of private school isn't even on the table for them. And no it really wouldn't be different if her complaint involved putting her kid through college although in that situation there is no other alternative to a paid university, since even state schools have tuition. But that is still a choice, and a choice that a lot of people don't have.

My point is that these clueless fucks should be listening more to growing number of people who can't afford to send their kids to private school and also can't afford to eat right or feed their kids or whatever other basics these people take for granted.

I agree that we are all feeling some bit of pinch. And like I said, she has me on 99% of what she is saying and I agree about the death of the American dream. But the bit about private schools made it clear that she was still one of the ones who still has the luxury of making such choices, rather than the far too many people who have had horrible choices made for them.