Comments on: The Obama School Scandal?

National Review Online: Public Schools Are Unacceptable To Pretty Much Anyone, Liberal Or Conservative

[noloyalisti]

The end of our country came when we listened to the moron Ray Gun and started to let corporations have any power to run anything without strict government control. Now we are the most stupid ignorant people on earth. We don''t even know what freedom is (at least a lot of us). A lot of us think it is mindless flag waving and killing women and children for oil. Doh!

[strctrequity]

J. Goldberg, a whale of a front man for character assassination by articulation of falsehood as fact.
Should the Obama''s support public education? Absolutely! Will they, for their children? No! Why? because they are in it for themselves not for the egalitarian civic duty of belonging and creating an optimal environment in which neural plasticity flourishes,an emerging ethic for being one.

[strctrequity]

J. Goldberg, a whale of a front man for character assassination by articulation of falsehood as fact.
Should the Obama''s support public education? Absolutely! Will they, for their children? No! Why? because they are in it for themselves not for the egalitarian civic duty of belonging and creating an optimal environment in which neural plasticity flourishes,an emerging ethic for being one.

[strctrequity]

J. Goldberg, a whale of a front man for character assassination by articulation of falsehood as fact.
Should the Obama''s support public education? Absolutely! Will they, for their children? No! Why? because they are in it for themselves not for the egalitarian civic duty of belonging and creating an optimal environment in which neural plasticity flourishes,an emerging ethic for being one.

[liberate40]

Hillary Clinton sent her daughter to this school. Did the National Review find that ''scandalous''? It is not some public obligation for the Obamas to send their kids to public schools, it is a personal choice for any parents to make for their own kids.

[taniar74]

I do not see any problem! Obama keeps saying that much effort must be given to public education because the actual system sucks. So it seems quite logical to me he doesn''t send his kids to public schools in the meantime.

[justsane-2009]

"D.C. ranks third in spending for each student, around $13,000 a pupil, but last in spending on instruction. More than half of every dollar of education spending goes to the salaries of administrators."

but you want to blame the inadequacies of the public school system on the teachers??? it''s not teachers who change the curriculum on a regular basis; not teachers who mandate more assessment time than actual instructional time; not teachers who determine class size, the length of the school day, or any of the rest of a myriad of issues that impact student achievement. those things are controlled by administrators, who are answerable to politicians.

the teacher''s unions are no more responsible for the deplorable state of public education than the uaw is responsible for the demise of the big three auto makers. in both cases, highly paid people in executive positions made poor decisions for years, and when their systemic failures came to light, they blamed it on the workers on the front lines. that''s so much easier than accepting responsibility, don''t you know, and union-bashing is really quite popular, so it all works out...except that the problems never get solved!

[jimmydonn]

Hahahahahahaha! So this is the best they can come up with? The Obama%u2019s are paying for the best education of their two girls not the US taxpayers but it is a problem? Someone mentioned Carter sending his kid to public school and please remind us how many years ago that was when schools were less violent?? Spoil losers who just cannot understand or accept the will of the people who voted for President Elect Obama on November 4, 2008. To those who want to force their brand of democracy in the form of the Bush *** please explain to us again your love for this country? How can you say you love this country yet you are against what makes this country unique? So with that said......DEAL WITH IT.

[runningralph]

Obama''s first duty will have to be to the US taxpayers. Along with that duty will be the responsibility to not let his family become a security risk. That means protecting his family is part of his duty to the American taxpayers. The real issue here is why the public schools are so bad. The reason for that is that liberalism for the past sixty years has allowed criminal culture to fester in US cities. Obama truly wants to lift people out of the low down life. To do that he will have to seriously crack down on his own political base.

[flreason]

For all of the people who support vouchers...you do realize that if there were vouchers, then our tax dollars might not just support kids going to parochial Christian schools, but also Muslim private schools. The best reason to support public schools with your tax dollars is because public schools bring together children of diverse backgrounds, which allows them to learn tolerance. When you start separating the kids by religion or ideology, you support intolerance. There is no reason why tax dollars should be applied to parochial schools. But there are very compelling reasons for public schools. If Americans would support their schools with tax dollars...and demand that their tax dollars go to teaching instead of administrators...public schools could be successful again.