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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If you knew little Ty's teacher lived down the road but sent her kids to St. Vitus, you wouldn't wonder WTF?
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Frankly, no. I know plenty of public school teachers who've sent their kids to private school. I'm related to several of them. The decision to send the kid to private school was more complex than "it's a better school."* Much of it is straight-up religion** or resonates with the discussion on LWK about not being able to kick the bad apples out. (Confidential to Club: the teachers' unions tend not to march in the streets against the power to expel. And nearly all of the individual public school teachers I know tend to agree with their unions about the systemic effects of vouchers. Some of them feel strongly against tuition credits for private school WHILE THEY'RE PAYING THOUSANDS IN PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION. Stop pretending the union is making this up.)
*Lawyers are all the fucking same. We are rank Timmies. Want me to point you to the posts on Infirm asking about "the best" law school or "the best" firm in a particular city? I have news for you --- normal people don't think so superficially.
**A not-inconsiderable portion of Club's stats are probably due to the fact that Catholic families who think civil service jobs are da bomb tend to produce a lot of teachers. Who send their kids to parochial school. It's not exactly a grand conspiracy. Catholics are 30% of the country, and some of them can afford parochial school. Big whoop.
