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    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/school-spending-affluent-widening-wealth-164018926.html

    The liberal elite have always championed public education while placing their children in private schools as they fight school vouchers that might place middle class children and poor children in schools with their children, but now things are accelerating. Now private schools are not good enough. Now the uber rich liberal elites are hiring private tutors now that the US economy is on life support.

    For children to be successful today, they must be able to do power point presentations by the time they reach middle school.
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    01 Oct '14 03:16
    Looking at the ever increasing cost of higher education, I once thought that they would have to begin to decrease the constant escalation in cost, otherwise demand would not keep up.

    However, with the ever increasing income of the liberal elite, they will probably make up the difference with their ballooning salaries to send their children to these uber liberal institutions.
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    01 Oct '14 05:30
    I don't know anyone who went to a private school. Perhaps if you guys, you know, got rid of poverty and invested in your public schools there would be less demand for private education?
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    01 Oct '14 08:54
    Originally posted by whodey
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/school-spending-affluent-widening-wealth-164018926.html

    The liberal elite have always championed public education while placing their children in private schools as they fight school vouchers that might place middle class children and poor children in schools with their children, but now things are accelerating. Now private ...[text shortened]... l today, they must be able to do power point presentations by the time they reach middle school.
    if i have the money to send my kid to a private school instead of one of your new york schools with metal detector, or one of your schools where the principal/teacher is supposed to carry a gun and be the "good guy to stop the bad guy with a gun" instead of TRAINED security, what do you think i would do?

    do you think the republican elite does otherwise? really?
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    01 Oct '14 10:442 edits
    Originally posted by KazetNagorra
    I don't know anyone who went to a private school. Perhaps if you guys, you know, got rid of poverty and invested in your public schools there would be less demand for private education?
    Here in the US we spend trillions to get rid of poverty, but just like poverty, the US is not getting their money's worth. The US spends more on education than any country in the world and wind up with the 48th ranked education in the world.

    All that can be known is that the US taxpayer is not taxed enough. The federal government needs more of our funds to fight education and aid poverty it seems. 😵

    Keep reelecting the criminally insane America like you do every election cycle.
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    01 Oct '14 11:37
    Originally posted by whodey
    Here in the US we spend trillions to get rid of poverty, but just like poverty, the US is not getting their money's worth. The US spends more on education than any country in the world and wind up with the 48th ranked education in the world.

    All that can be known is that the US taxpayer is not taxed enough. The federal government needs more of our funds ...[text shortened]... t seems. 😵

    Keep reelecting the criminally insane America like you do every election cycle.
    "The US spends more on education than any country in the world"
    i am calling you on that. how about some proof.
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    01 Oct '14 13:37
    Originally posted by whodey
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/school-spending-affluent-widening-wealth-164018926.html

    The liberal elite have always championed public education while placing their children in private schools as they fight school vouchers that might place middle class children and poor children in schools with their children, but now things are accelerating. Now private ...[text shortened]... l today, they must be able to do power point presentations by the time they reach middle school.
    How dare those dirty old LIBERALS want a good education for their kids. Rich Conservatives never do this, do they?? So, please tell us Whodey...what is your answer to all this? You're good at complaining, but not so good at solutions!
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    01 Oct '14 13:44
    Originally posted by Zahlanzi
    "The US spends more on education than any country in the world"
    i am calling you on that. how about some proof.
    Who spends more spanky?
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    01 Oct '14 13:45
    Originally posted by bill718
    How dare those dirty old LIBERALS want a good education for their kids. Rich Conservatives never do this, do they?? So, please tell us Whodey...what is your answer to all this? You're good at complaining, but not so good at solutions!
    When states ran their education programs without federal interference, public schools fared much better.
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    01 Oct '14 13:50
    Originally posted by whodey
    the uber rich liberal elites
    I presume this is a minority group you're yacking on about?
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    01 Oct '14 13:53
    Originally posted by KazetNagorra
    I don't know anyone who went to a private school. Perhaps if you guys, you know, got rid of poverty and invested in your public schools there would be less demand for private education?
    Interesting that you choose the word "invested" as if it is a foregone conclusion that spending more money is the solution.

    See article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/oecd-education-report_n_3496875.html
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    01 Oct '14 13:56
    Originally posted by shavixmir
    I presume this is a minority group you're yacking on about?
    Actually no.

    Look at the demographics in the US. The "rich" states are uber liberal. The poor states are conservative for the most part.
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    01 Oct '14 14:17
    Originally posted by whodey
    Actually no.

    Look at the demographics in the US. The "rich" states are uber liberal. The poor states are conservative for the most part.
    Yeah... but how rich are the majority of those folk?
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    01 Oct '14 14:27
    Originally posted by Zahlanzi
    "The US spends more on education than any country in the world"
    i am calling you on that. how about some proof.
    Here's some proof that it's not true:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_on_education_(%25_of_GDP)

    Although the data for developing countries is probably not very accurate, the rich western country which spends the most on education (as a percentage of GDP) is Denmark.
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    01 Oct '14 14:32
    Originally posted by KazetNagorra
    Here's some proof that it's not true:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_on_education_(%25_of_GDP)

    Although the data for developing countries is probably not very accurate, the rich western country which spends the most on education (as a percentage of GDP) is Denmark.
    As a percentage of GDP, no.

    As an absolute amount per student, apparently the US does.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/oecd-education-report_n_3496875.html

    And since whodey didn't mention a percentage of GDP, seems like he's correct.
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