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RDANGELO

(3,433 posts) Wed Sep 26, 2018, 12:13 AM Sep 2018

Does the upper echelon of our society have a racket or what?

Kavenaugh supposedly graduated from his prep school and Yale. Sounds like all he did was party and get drunk.

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Does the upper echelon of our society have a racket or what? (Original Post) RDANGELO Sep 2018 OP

Dubya redux. dchill Sep 2018 #1

I agree. We need to build up our public schools delisen Sep 2018 #2

I was thinking the same thing. Talk about privileged assholes. Bluepinky Sep 2018 #3

I went to the cheapest prep school in the country safeinOhio Sep 2018 #4

dchill

(38,471 posts)

1. Dubya redux.

Reply to RDANGELO (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2018, 12:19 AM

Sep 2018

delisen

(6,042 posts)

2. I agree. We need to build up our public schools

Reply to RDANGELO (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2018, 01:21 AM

Sep 2018

they need to be integrated. I don't believe that the prep school circuit prepares people to build a just society and to function well in a democracy.

Bluepinky

(2,268 posts)

3. I was thinking the same thing. Talk about privileged assholes.

Reply to RDANGELO (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2018, 02:11 AM

Sep 2018

It looks like these elite prep schools produce a lot of lawyers.

On the other hand, some of the guys from this background are very decent people, like John Kerry and Robert Mueller. They were both at St Paul’s School as teens.

safeinOhio

(32,673 posts)

4. I went to the cheapest prep school in the country

Reply to RDANGELO (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2018, 06:47 AM

Sep 2018

back in the 60s. $1,800/year and that included room and board. I'd say half off the students were dumped there by their parents that just didn't want to deal with their kids.

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