Posted by
KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 3:28:17 PM
Public schools were not suitable for Barak Hussein Obama according to his parent's choices, but private schools apparently were very good to him, first in Indonesia (grades 1-4) and then at the exclusive Punahou (grades 5-12) private school in Hawaii. So school choice was very good for Obama. In fact you could argue it was fundamental in his 'clean' and 'articulate' bearing, to quote Senator Biden. It prepared him for acceptance to Occidental College, Columbia University and later Harvard Law.
School choice is favored by over 80% of black Americans. Democrats aren't listening. Teachers Unions give 90+% of political contributions to Democrats. This eliminates any possibility of choice for parents who know their kids are 'shackled' to failing schools. As the former head of the NEA said, "When students start paying union dues, we'll look out for the interests of students." The message to blacks is, private schools for us and failing public schools for you. Did the KKK come up with this system? Sure seems like it to me.
Annual tuition for Punahou attendance in 2006-2007 school year is $14,275. Wow! That's $11,000 more a year than tuition costs to attend college in Florida. In fact room and board and tuition is less than that in Florida. So if BO started this year his cost for the next 8 years would be $114,000+ not counting annual tuition escalations. Yes, he has endured the typical black American experience...well maybe not. Occidental College targeted the top 10% of graduates when they recruited me and I presume the same was true when BO applied and was accepted.