Santorum: Parents should run schools

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This one, unlike the other Rick "exposees" of Rick thought for the day, is a bum rap.  Here is what Rick said:

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I don't happen to agree, since many local communities are doing a suck job of it, and the parents are largely AWOL, but the comment is pretty mainstream. And oh yes, it is "run," not "teach."  There is a difference.

Winfield just as a suggestion, I would pick your shots more carefully. I try when I launch one, to make sure that I am drawing blood. And Rick is a target rich environment, so that shouldn't be too hard.

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Rick Santorum calls something anachronistic.  Without a hint of irony.

What's "anachronistic" about home schooling and the one room for all ages and grades school house?   I mean, Lincoln attended a one room school house for a couple of years only, and that was it. And he wrote the Gettysburg address. They must have been fantastic educational venues. Case closed!

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They don't already? Especially the rich ones, they seem to always get their way somehow.

Ah, upper middle class to rich suburban school districts I don't think are in play much here.  I suspect the parents are all over the schools in Atherton, CA.