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Seneca Pilot
As with anything, follow the money.
Who wants poor inner city children to stay in their awful schools? Who has benefitted from the entire industry that has grown up around race? Who benefits from the status quo and the ever increasing tension between all races? Tough questions with even tougher answers. What did Barack Obama do for inner city children besides lip service. Last time I checked his kids went to private schools in Chicago and DC. Is your kid going to Sidwell Friends? Why would he fight against good schools for your children while his go to the best? Paul Tudor Jones has done more for inner city kids than Obama, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton combined but he is just a rich white guy so onward we go blaming the rich white guy for holding down the poor minority and the cycle continues.
PTJ started the Robin Hood foundation. Look into what they have done. Real help not just lip service.
I thought we weren’t doing hyperbole? That was your criticism. No one wants poor schools for anyone. But, most people don’t want to pay a tax increase to properly fund them either. Not at the Federal, State, and certainly not the local level. Go to your next city council meeting when they discuss a millage increase of 1/10 to buy new textbooks and watch the retirees come out of the woodwork in opposition. Now some communities do value education, and strong public schools as they recognize the value of a well educated work force base as the manual jobs are becoming highly automated and they want to keep their citizen taxpayers at home and productive. But that’s the exception.
Regarding President Obama’s children: What would you suggest the Obama’s should do about the education of their children, children who received credible and actionable death threats on a regular basis. How do you keep them safe? How do you keep their classmates safe? You send them to the school that has the most experience in The District with educating and securing high value targets. That’s how. President Carter’s kids went to public school, true. It was a different time, and he was a different president.
Did President Obama do enough for education? That’s debatable and his administration is certainly open for criticism. His administration was not openly hostile to education and student safety as the Trump administration is. Thankfully, just about everything Cruella DeVos tries (I couldn’t help myself on that one, it’s so low hanging) to do is so patently illegal it withers under initial scrutiny.