From: niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Subject: Re: The New Education President
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:21:27 GMT

In article <1igf91INN2o3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard A. Mulac) writes:
>In article <1if0m5INN1dc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard A. Mulac) writes:

>>>And to add to the hypocrisy-I wonder if the wonderfull unbiased media, which
>>>blasted Quayle if he happened to play golf one time at some obscure club which
>>>had no minority members, will give us a breakdown of the student population
>>>at this elite private school.  And if it turns out to be 99% WASP, will they
>>>splash across the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post that 
>>>Bill has chosen a rascist institution to educate his daughter?  I WOULDN'T
>>>COUNT ON IT!

>In a previous article, niepornt@bird.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) says:

>>It's typical of talk.politics.misc, but still awfully stupid, for people
>>to make a prediction about what is going to happen and then go off on a
>>tirade as if that prediction has already come true.

>>Rarely, however, do I get the satisfaction of pointing out right away
>>that the prediction is completely wrong.

>>The New York Times published *TODAY* the breakdown of the school.  And,
>>no, it is *not* 99% WASP.  It is something like 17% black, 5% asian, and
>>3% hispanic.  Or something like that; this is from memory.

>It's not the figures you post, but the spin you put on them.

Translated: Okay, I'm full of sh*it, but I'll backpedal and make up some
other lame reason to criticize Clinton.

You tried to claim that Bill Clinton was racist for sending Chelsea to an
all-white private school, and that the media was biased for not
reporting it.  Except that the private school *isn't* all-white, and the
media *did* report it.  

Well, 0-2 in one post.  Come on.  Reagan and Bush managed to do much better
than that.  They managed to work 15-20 ludicrous and easily refutable
claims into every speech.  Work on that a little more.

>Ooooooooo! 17 + 5 + 3 = 25% minority representation.  Did that great basteon
>of journalism, The New York Times, also give the minority breakdown of the
>DC public schools?  NO!  The only reason they gave the 25% figure was to leave 
>the misled American electorate with the impression that this elitist school
>had a diverse population similiar to the DC public schools.  I just wonder

Not at all.  There's no need for a spin.  It's quite obvious that the
schools in the District, which is about 80% minority, has a different
demographic mix than the Sidwell Friends school.

However, it is not anywhere near all-white, as you tried to claim.  And
it has scholarship programs for underpriveleged minorities.

And it doesn't prove anything except that most people in the District 
can't afford Sidwell Friends.

>if Chelsea, a product of the Arkansas public school system, will suffer more 
>by being thrust into an environment consisting of students her same age who
>have been much better prepared in their earlier education.  But don't

Did you go to public or private school?  Because you seem to have
suffered greatly by being thrust into this environment.

>worry, Chelsea will soon be back in school in Arkansas -

>                            IN FOUR YEARS!

Which simply serves further to prove how silly your first point about
Bill Clinton's racism/hypocrisy was.  In Arkansas, Chelsea went to an
integrated (split basically 50-50) public school. 

>She'll be better off anyhow taking driver's ed in rural Arkansas instead of 
>riding in DC traffic.  {:^)

Why?  If *you* were the DMV examiner, would *you* fail the daughter of
the president on her driving test with all those secret service people
around to protect her?  :)

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