The NY Times Lectures the ‘Great Unwashed’ About Private Schools

New York Times columnist Charles Blow today excoriates people for sending their children to private schools, claiming that such schools turn children into racists and elitists. The comments that appear with the column are even more instructive, as people fall down and worship his very words. (Like all Progressives, Blow believes that the State is the Highest and Most Worthy Religion.)

However, I also submitted comments which to this point have not been approved by the NYT. I post them below:

I have a great idea, Mr. Blow. Why don’t we just make all private (and especially religious) schools illegal. Oh, I forgot, it has been done before.

During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan dominated the Oregon legislature, and the legislature outlawed private schools. (The law especially was aimed at Catholic schools.) The U.S. Supreme Court later struck down that law as unconstitutional.

Interestingly, some of the reasons for outlawing those schools were some of the ones you have given above in your column. So, perhaps it is ironic that you are helping to make the same argument against private schools that the racist thugs in sheets made 80 years ago.

By the way, I grew up with two prominent offspring of the Sulzberger family. One is a well-known author and one works with your organization. Oh, yes, they also went to private schools. So, I guess the NY Times wants private schools for their own, but anyone else who does not fall into the umbrella of people you approve should be forced no matter what to send their own children to government schools. Why am I not surprised?

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6:42 am on October 30, 2010