{"id":37759,"date":"2013-08-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37759"},"modified":"2013-08-08T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:57:16","slug":"low-expectations-for-ye-but-not-for-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37759","title":{"rendered":"Low Expectations For Ye, But Not For We"},"content":{"rendered":"

About ten years ago, there was a\u00a0 Saint Paul city council rep\u00a0– it’d probably be redundant to note that he was a “progressive” –\u00a0who was a died-in-the-wool public school-support machine.\u00a0 Looooved those public schools.\u00a0 Hated hated hated <\/em>homeschools and charter schools and private schools.\u00a0 Thought school choice created separate, unequal school systems.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the councilperson’s son went to Saint Paul Academy.<\/p>\n

“Progressives” have given any number of examples of such hypocrisy; Chelsea Clinton and the Obama kids would never be allowed in a public school, even as their parents fought against meaningful school choice for the children of the less fortunate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway – Matt Damon, outspoken supporter of more tax funding for the schools that are supposed to be good enough for all us proles, isn’t going to risk\u00a0 his own children in the public education cesspool:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Actor Matt Damon is a strong supporter of America’s public schools. Just two years ago, the star spoke passionately about the importance of public schools at a Washington DC “Save our Schools” rally. In fact, the actor is so impressed with public school teachers that he has demanded they receive a pay raise. That passion and conviction, however, does not apply to Damon’s own children, who will not be enrolled into the Los Angeles public school system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the excuse is almost too stupid for “progressives” to buy.<\/p>\n

I said “almost” (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Guardian published Saturday, Damon revealed that he had just moved to Los Angeles from New York, but that he didn’t “have a choice” when it came to putting his four daughters into private schools. The multi-millionaire did say that it was “a major moral dilemma” and then made the bizarre excuse that the public schools aren’t “progressive” enough<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was a leap in logic not even Jason Bourne could make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About ten years ago, there was a\u00a0 Saint Paul city council rep\u00a0– it’d probably be redundant to note that he was a “progressive” –\u00a0who was a died-in-the-wool public school-support machine.\u00a0 Looooved those public schools.\u00a0 Hated hated hated homeschools and charter schools and private schools.\u00a0 Thought school choice created separate, unequal school systems. Naturally, the councilperson’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-education","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37760,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759\/revisions\/37760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}