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  6. Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:55:11 -0500
  7. Sender:       Professionals and Students Discussing Education Policy Analysis
  8.               <EDPOLYAN@ASUACAD.BITNET>
  9. From:         JFCOVALE@SUVM.BITNET
  10. Subject:      school choice and clinton
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  13. For a long time I was confused by the charge that the Clintons' choice of
  14. Sidwell Friends was evidence of the hypocrisy of Slick Willie.  The last batch
  15. of postings have, perhaps, clarified the issue for me.  The Clintons
  16. advocate policies that support public schools, but do not send their own
  17. children there.  On this view consistency lies in either advocating policies
  18. to undermine the public schools (e.g., public money to private schools) or
  19. actually avail themselves of the public system.  The hypocrisy lies in
  20. exercising a privilege they have by virtue of wealth and position while at
  21. the same time attempting to ameliorate the conditions that make that
  22. privilege so powerful.  I assume that the comparison is being made to the
  23. previous administrations, in which rich and powerful men were admirably
  24. un-hypocritical in their frank and open advocacy of policies that would benefit
  25. rich and powerful men.
  26.  
  27. On this reasoning, if Bill Clinton chooses to advocate policies to improve
  28. the lot of the homeless, I assume that he will again be charged with hypocrisy
  29. unless the family spends the rest of his term living in a cardboard box outside
  30. Union Station.
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  36. *                                                              *
  37. *                    John F. Covaleskie                        *
  38. *      Cultural Foundations of Education and Curriculum        *
  39. *  259 Huntington Hall                                         *
  40. *  Syracuse University                 Maloff Towers, #2       *
  41. *  Syracuse, NY  13244                 Chittenango, NY  13037  *
  42. *  315/443-3343                        315/687-5595            *
  43. *                   JFCOVALE@SUVM.BITNET                       *
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