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mojitz t1_jecaife wrote

Good start, but private schools should be banned entirely. Their primary function isn't education, but to serve as a place for the children of the elite to network and calcify their already substantial advantages within society. If you desperately want to spare your kids from the "horrors" of the public education system, then you should either be working to make that system better or else home schooling.

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Real-Pierre-Delecto2 t1_jedy7kj wrote

Dumb takes like this are exactly why we need decent independent schools. Like my Daughters 12 person high school is raking in dough and is full of the "elite". Sad generalizations that are not at all reality. Our independent schools are not Exeter Prep and the like good lord. Now let me get back my substantial advantages in the NEK. Jeesh

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TheGoldberryBombadil t1_jeeksnz wrote

I know, comparing Vermont private schools to NH private schools is like comparing apples and oranges (and that’s an understatement).

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ballofsnowyoperas t1_jee2g6o wrote

As a private school teacher, you could not be more wrong.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jee4ytq wrote

That's the benefit of their public education showing. Indoctrinated into the State.

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bigmountainbig t1_jectexo wrote

you're generalizing about private schools. you're describing schools like Deerfield, Andover etc. there are a ton of private schools (in VT) that are nothing like those schools.

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mrgrey772 t1_jefm6u1 wrote

And if there were most of us would be clamoring to get our young ones In.

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TheGoldberryBombadil t1_jecp3ev wrote

I just read the bill, it only applies to private schools that are in areas without public schools (and so the private schools are necessary for any education for local kids at all). I suspect St J is an example, or maybe Burr and Burton?

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Thick_Piece t1_jeejrj1 wrote

A child gets twice the education at Burr and Burton then any public school in Vermont.

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Sol_Hando t1_jegsgw9 wrote

Rather than allowing parents to provide the best food for their children, we should mandate all children eat the same state issued rations. Otherwise the children of the elite will benefit from superior nutrition leaving the rest of the population in the dust. If parents truly want the best for their children, they should work to improve the quality of all food instead.

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Waste_Sign_4661 t1_jeez1c7 wrote

You can’t be serious. As someone who moved here less than a year ago the public schools around me are questionable at best. The worst inner city schools I went to as a child weren’t falling so nearly behind. I’m talking grade levels behind. I’m actually shocked and looking into other options for them next school year.

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