Slate: If you send your kids to private school, you are a bad person

[ArcadiaGP]

Trying to find a non-Slate source for their article, as I have an embargo on posting links to link-whore trash sites like Slate.

http://freebeacon.com/blog/if-you-use-private-transportation-youre-a-bad-person/
A School Monopoly? What a Great Idea? | Cato @ Liberty
Please, sending your kids to private school doesn?t make you a bad person | AEIdeas

http://twitchy.com/2013/08/29/send-...tweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

If wanting your children to have a better education in a safer environment makes you a bad person, then be bad. Be real bad.

But nah, all kids must be equally miserable and at the whim of teacher's unions.

Future articles?

"If you only go to good doctors, you are a bad person."
"If you only eat at good restaurants, you are a bad person."
"If you move to a nice neighborhood where you and your kids are safer, you are a bad person."

Ace has an excellent collection of Slate's link-bait troll stories: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/342918.php

 

[nickman54]

Trying to find a non-Slate source for their article, as I have an embargo on posting links to link-whore trash sites like Slate.

If You Use Private Transportation, You?re a Bad Person | Washington Free Beacon
A School Monopoly? What a Great Idea? | Cato @ Liberty
Please, sending your kids to private school doesn?t make you a bad person | AEIdeas

If wanting your children to have a better education in a safer environment makes you a bad person, then be bad. Be real bad.

But nah, all kids must be equally miserable and at the whim of teacher's unions.

Future articles?

"If you only go to good doctors, you are a bad person."
"If you only eat at good restaurants, you are a bad person."
"If you move to a nice neighborhood where you and your kids are safer, you are a bad person."

The author stated that they attended an awful public school and then writes this drivel. Shocking.

 

[HoughMade]

My kids are home-schooled.....I'm practically a terrorist.

 

[BogWalker]

I suppose one could link this to socialist doctrine. It's evil to have more than others, so you must lower yourself to the standard of the poor in the name of equality. Yeah, that's pretty much what I got out of it. It's evil to want something better than others. What a bunch of BS.

 

[Jerchap2]

My kids are home-schooled.....I'm practically a terrorist.

Amen! Mine, too. Teaching not only the standard subjects, but real-life applications and skills, handling, care, and shooting of firearms with hands-on practice at the range, as well as the values we hold and respect -- not the ones the liberal NEA embraces. I guess that makes me a terrorist, too. We also drink raw, non-pasteurized milk. ****

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Slate: If you homeschool your kids, you're literally Hitler.

 

[jbombelli]

My kids are home-schooled.....I'm practically a terrorist.

Mine too. Ten Most Wanted List, here I come!

I tried to rep you, but I have to spread it around more.

 

[HoughMade]

I appreciate it anyway.

 

[pudly]

Ummm... I believe that the president, many other govt officials, and many celebrities send their kids to private schools. Are they "bad people" as well?

 

[Bunnykid68]

Bunch a terrorists up in this thread

 

[churchmouse]

OK. I guess I really suck then. My kids went to private schools from K/12.......

 

[Rob377]

Slate's strategy these days is to troll.

Please, don't feed the trolls.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

The spouse of the person that wrote the Slate article works for Gawker. So, no surprises there.

 

[level.eleven]

The spouse of the person that wrote the Slate article works for Gawker. So, no surprises there.

And the blog you linked has a feed to the Moonie Times. What is the difference?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

And the blog you linked has a feed to the Moonie Times. What is the difference?

The difference?

The topic is focusing on this Slate writer saying that Private Schools are for bad people. I made the connection that they are related to someone that works for a very lefty-centric website, Gawker.

The sites I linked have nothing to do with the original article on Slate, I simply refuse to link to Slate.

I don't even know two of the sources I linked. I linked them for the readers of this thread to have options to read about the Slate article. I'm sure most of the people here have found the Slate article on their own. My choice to not link it is something else entirely.

The websites "reacting" to the Slate article don't change what the Slate article said.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

OK. I guess I really suck then. My kids went to private schools from K/12.......

I guess that makes you and I Slate poster children.

 

[CavMedic]

We homeschool our son. We like to teach him life skills and give him information that really matters...


Also we teach him that the Founding Fathers' were terrorists and they should be hated

 

[level.eleven]

The difference?

The topic is focusing on this Slate writer saying that Private Schools are for bad people. I made the connection that they are related to someone that works for a very lefty-centric website, Gawker.

The sites I linked have nothing to do with the original article on Slate, I simply refuse to link to Slate.

I don't even know two of the sources I linked. I linked them for the readers of this thread to have options to read about the Slate article. I'm sure most of the people here have found the Slate article on their own. My choice to not link it is something else entirely.

The websites "reacting" to the Slate article don't change what the Slate article said.

An editorial piece ran counter to your personal views? Oh my. That is why Twitchy was founded. Scour the internet looking for differing opinions and then inflate them as if they were gospel. Modern media has convinced a segment of America that journalism is a sport. They have convinced a segment of America that if Hannity has higher ratings than Maddow it is game, set, match. This odd view of winners and losers, my guy isn't as bad as your guy, makes guys who don't give a shake a lot of money. Is the information reputable? Doesn't matter. My team said it.

You refuse to link to Slate but you link to the Washington Times? What is next? The Daily Mail? The National Enquirer?

 

[Streak]

Let's not forget that not all public schools are bad. My middle school & high school had a shop class. We had a science class. We had music and arts and many of the teachers were great and really did work for the students.

I do wish my high school had an IT/IS/Programming class. I did do my high school's vocational class for the Cisco CCNA and Comptia A+ certification stuff, but it'd be nice if they offered it as normal classes. But who knows, maybe they added it.

Anyways, to me, what is the hallmark of a good school has less to do with where it gets it's funding and more about the teachers themselves.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

An editorial piece ran counter to your personal views? Oh my. That is why Twitchy was founded. Scour the internet looking for differing opinions and then inflate them as if they were gospel. Modern media has convinced a segment of America that journalism is a sport. They have convinced a segment of America that if Hannity has higher ratings than Maddow it is game, set, match. This odd view of winners and losers, my guy isn't as bad as your guy, makes guys who don't give a shake a lot of money. Is the information reputable? Doesn't matter. My team said it.

You refuse to link to Slate but you link to the Washington Times? What is next? The Daily Mail? The National Enquirer?

Just like I don't shop at places that are anti-2A, I don't provide clicks to websites that hate me.

As far as Washington Times - I figured it was "neutral" enough, and not extremist like Slate.