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      <title>Comments On: The billionaire boys (and girl) club for charter schools
    
      by Max Brantley</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[Doigotta]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As it happens, Doc, you posted not long before I decided I'd while away a little late night time here. Please look back at my comment. I said nothing about African-Americans. The "inferior race" comments specifically pre-WWII German attitude toward Poles. Furthermore, a slave -- in the case, also a German reference to Poles -- can be anyone of any color or nationality. The point, which I apparently didn't make adequately, is that we seem to be headed toward an even greater have/have-not society. A two-tiered school system will only exacerbate our societal problems. <br>
Charter schools are cherry picking students AND siphoning money from regular public schools. What about those students left behind? A two tiered public educational system effectively writes those children off. Are they destined to become modern day serfs? Seems to me that's where this is headed. <br>
Is that the intent of those deep, deep pocketed supporters? Cynic that I am, I'm afraid I do entertain such thoughts. Although for the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would think that even greater economic and societal divisions than we have now would be anything other than harmful.
        
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      <![CDATA[Doigotta, Jesus H. Christ on a Popsicle Stick, what a stupid comparison.  Do you realize how many African-American groups apply for charter schools?
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:56:37 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[CharterYachts]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Thanks for sharing this article. Keep it up Max and continue sharing articles like you did in this one.<br>
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Cheers!<br>
<a href="http://www.charteryachtsaustralia.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.charteryachtsaustralia.com.au</a>
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:58:50 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Doigotta]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Just read an article about the death of the oldest Auschwitz survivor, a Polish teacher who was 108 years old. He was sent to the concentration camp because he dared continue to teach after the Germans decreed that only a fourth grade elementary education would be permitted for Polish children. Seems the Poles were considered an "inferior race" and wouldn't need any more education since they were only good enough to become slaves to the Germans.<br>
Does anyone else see an unsettling parallel here with the push to establish charter schools in this country?
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:26:01 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Sound Policy]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Mel, hope your side prevails on election day.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:52:23 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Mel Westbrook]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Max, actually we are voting to CREATE, not expand, a charter system.  Washington State is one of 9 states that has never had them (and we don't want them).  I-1240 is a terrible initiative that would allow takeover of ANY existing school, failing or not, via a parent OR teacher petition.  <br>
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We have voted them down now 3 times and we hope the 4th will be the charm.<br>
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<a href="http://www.no1240.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.no1240.org</a>
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:15:58 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Horse twaddle, Saline/Ev.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[SalineRepublican]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[We have to turn to the school voucher system if we want competition between schools and want to lower the cost of education.<br>
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<a href="http://thedailyhatch.org/2012/10/22/school-voucher-system-in-chili/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thedailyhatch.org/2012/10/22/school&hellip;</a>
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:46:05 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[couldn't be better]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[These same "big money" people don't send their kids to public schools OR charter schools but to private schools safely tucked away so they don't have to associate with the riff-raff (the other 99%).
        
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    <author><![CDATA[eLwood]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Hey, if they can own the politicians it's only normal they should own the schools.<br>
Never forget we're an "ownership society."
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:10:05 -0500</pubDate>
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