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How does a public high school (Warde) cost 160k? Are taxes that high?
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How does a public high school (Warde) cost 160k? Are taxes that high? It may be one of those technologically advanced 21st century private-public prototype schools designed specifically to utilize experimental market-based education and valuation approaches in conjunction with GPA-weighted competitive bid mechanisms in order to maximize profits for shareholders. If it's already gone though it's IPO, you can check it's stock price and recent quarterly dividends. That should give you a ballpark answer to your question.
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I confused Jerelyn Luther, the Yale shreiker from an upper middle class family, with Keely Mullen, the upper-middle class organizer of the Million Student March. Keely is pushing for free public college, a cancellation of student debt, and a $15 minimum wage. Keely claimed in a TV interview that she came from a working class family but records show that her family owns a million dollar home and that she went to a private high school in Chicago. Despite coming from an upper-middle class family, she managed to accumulate $150K in debt at Northeastern: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com...p-with-the-million-student-march-p1.htmlIs it politically incorrect to say that I can't tell Social Justice Warriors apart because they all sound the same?
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This may be where my DD snarkily notes that (and yes, this IS a direct quote); It's just Tumblr posts all the way down, isn't it?
Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
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It's just Tumblr posts all the way down, isn't it? That is fantastic. I am going to start using it.
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Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
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Yale President Vows New Efforts to Promote DiversityInsider Higher Education November 18, 2015 Yale President Peter Salovey announced Tuesday that the university will undertake a series of new efforts to promote an inclusive environment on campus. Among the steps he outlined: adding faculty positions on underrepresented groups and doubling the budgets for campus cultural centers that focus on various groups. He also pledged that he, "along with the vice presidents, deans, provosts and other members of the administration, will receive training on recognizing and combating racism and other forms of discrimination in the academy." Mob tactics will continue to be employed when they yield results. "Adding faculty positions on underrepresented groups" means discriminating against the "overrepresented". The more universities hire according to racial quotas, the worse they will be at research and teaching.
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Agreed.  Cultivating an awareness of "privilege" is one thing. I'd say that is a universally good thing, in fact. Most college students could stand to cultivate a bit more empathy outside of their own worldview and narrow experiences, no matter what they are. Not a few professors and administrators could use that, as well. I believe that this may have at one time been "sensitivity training" in the academic lexicon; most of my colleagues (privileged, all of us) treated this as little more than a joke, I'm sorry to say. It used to be that this was what higher education was best at-- broadening and deepening awareness and understanding of the world, beyond what even an autodidact would naturally encounter and learn. How incredibly sad that such a thing is being sacrificed for the comfort (or maybe just the hubris) of a vocal minority. Ubiquitous trigger warnings and safe spaces that muzzle free speech are far past awareness and sensitivity-- and the goings on in some places in higher ed go far, far beyond that at this point. Those protesting are riding a fine line between civil disobedience/protest and tactics more often associated with mob rule or domestic terrorism. It's as though these students want to UN-do all the good that the protests of the 1960's accomplished in making higher education a place which didn't merely serve to insulate the elite from the real world and ideology that felt alien to them. Now I have this strange need to re-read Bonfire of the Vanities, somehow.
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The University of Chicago has taken a stand for free speech and thought: No Hiding in Hyde Parkby GILBERT T. SEWALL American Spectator August 29, 2016 A provocative cover letter sent last week to entering University of Chicago freshmen along with a book on academic freedom started the school year with a bang, when the respected college dean of students John Ellison declared:
we do not support so called “trigger warnings,” we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual “safe spaces” where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.
The letter instantly lit up the news from Yahoo to the New York Times. Some educators found its pre-emptive language and confident voice refreshing and constructive. Others, including Wesleyan University president Michael S. Roth, dismissed it as a donor-oriented publicity stunt.
In fact, Chicago was distancing itself from last year’s destructive campus antics. The university is known for producing fine minds versed in Great Books and the inheritance of Western civilization. Many consider it to be the nation’s most rigorously intellectual undergraduate college. In 2015, faculty members issued the widely admired Report by the Committee on Freedom of Expression, a statement that later served as a model for policies adopted at Purdue, Princeton, Columbia, and other major universities. An NYT article on the letter: University of Chicago Strikes Back Against Campus Political Correctness By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, MITCH SMITH and STEPHANIE SAUL AUG. 26, 2016
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Does the US have laws the limit free speech when it is likely to cause harm eg. Provoking racial hatred etc?
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