Public School Advocate Matt Damon Enrolls Kids in Private School

[Zippyjuan]

Celebtities may choose a private school because they feel it may offer their kids more safety/ security from things like paparazzi or stallkers than a public school would. Perhaps this why Damon felt "forced" to make the choice he did?

 

[aGameOfThrones]

He's passionate about making public schools better for the majority of kids who can't afford private schools.

That said - he is getting his kids the best education he can afford.

That doesn't strike me as at odds.

 

[AuH20]

Considering how vehemently such "celebrities" are against school vouchers, this is comically hypocritical.

 

[Henry Rogue]

And that's not a counter-argument.

 

[AuH20]

There's the "major moral dilemma."

The real issue is their lack of faith in fellow humans and communities, so they feel they need to force it. Damon did not come up with these ideas on his own.

White liberals are the biggest jagoffs on the planet. There is no close comparison.



Ben Carson on white liberals:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/3/dr-ben-carson-white-liberals-most-racist/

 

[Henry Rogue]

He's passionate about making public schools better for the majority of kids who can't afford private schools.

That said - he is getting his kids the best education he can afford.

That doesn't strike me as at odds.

So he may claim, But he also claims teachers are underpaid. He is talking about increasing teachers profits through force and that is not about the kids.

 

[Lucille]

Celebtities may choose a private school because they feel it may offer their kids more safety/ security from things like paparazzi or stallkers than a public school would. Perhaps this why Damon felt "forced" to make the choice he did?

LOL Why speculate when you can read what he actually said?

Choosing a school has already presented a major moral dilemma. "Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair." Damon has campaigned against teachers' pay being pegged to children's test results: "So we agitate about those things, and try to change them, and try to change the policy, but you know, it's a tough one."

This killed me:

Matt Damon's politics owe a great deal to his mother. The first time Nancy Carlsson-Paige saw her son featured in a glossy magazine, she was appalled. "My beautiful boy is being used to sell products," she told a newspaper. "He is just a cog in the capitalist system." She'd never even read a magazine like Vanity Fair before, her son explains. "She's a professor. If it's not the Nation, she doesn't read it. And she said, 'This thing is nothing but page after page of adverts for products that nobody needs!'" He chuckles. I'd love to know what his mother makes of his latest film, Elysium, a big-budget sci-fi action thriller packed with set-piece fights and expensive pyrotechnic violence. "Hmm, well, my mom's big on non-violent conflict resolution," he grins.

Oh noes! Not capitalism! And is she big on non-violence? She sure likes it when the state uses the violence to force her statist progressive will on us all though, doesn't she?

Damon has been a passionate public supporter of Barack Obama and is confident that his healthcare reforms will rescue America from the iniquities Elysium dramatises.

Actually, Barry's Big Fascist Medical System will increase the "iniquities," but go ahead and believe whatever makes you happy.

But Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations have just emerged when we meet and, Damon admits, "It just seems to have taken this weird, Orwellian turn. It's surreal. I don't know where we are now."

A creepy global high tech Panopticon is where we are now, Matt.

He does, however, have a theory about how these developments have happened under Obama's presidency. "I think it's tough for guys who weren't in the military," he says. "One, their manhood is kind of challenged on some level, I imagine, and they allow themselves to get bullied. And two, they're just politically afraid of either looking soft or looking incompetent, so they overcompensate."

LOL So Obama's a big beta puss who's slaughtering innocent people and destroyed our rights for political purposes? GMAFB. You support Bush on steroids.

Shut up and sing!

 

[BlackTerrel]

So he may claim, But he also claims teachers are underpaid. He is talking about increasing teachers profits through force and that is not about the kids.

That's certainly a valid argument against his positions.

The idea in the OP is not.