Brickbat: Not Throwing Away My Shot

Former principal Natasha Halfkenny and former assistant principal Coreen Miranda, of Boston Public Schools' Tobin School, have each paid a $4,000 fine for violating the state's conflict of interest law. The two went to see the musical Hamilton using tickets that had been donated to the school and were intended to be given to students who could not afford tickets to the show. But Halfkenny and Miranda each brought their sons, who do not attend Boston Public Schools.

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[AT]

Don't make me go get the goose meme. Seriously, report the full story.

Also, wait until you go look up how much money both of these race grifters made.

Also, "Melanin Scholars." LMAO.

[Chumby]

Some might take a gander.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...who do not attend Boston Public Schools.

The story within the story.

[Jerry B.]

Sounds like an interesting survey.

How many public-school teachers and administrators send their kids to private school? Compare with how many janitors and lunchroom staff send their kids to private schools.

[Rossami]

Broad-based surveys are hard to come by but a 2004 Fordham Institute study found that "39 percent of Chicago Public School teachers send their own children to private schools." (For benchmarking, the national average for private schools that year was 12%.)

A group called Education Next attempted in 2015 to update that with a national survey. They concluded that "No less than 20% of teachers with school age children, but only 13% of non-teachers, have sent one or more of their children to private school." But their methodology section shows that even though they called 4000 people, only 851 were parents of school-aged children (and only 206 of those were teachers) so the statistical error bars on their conclusion are quite wide.

[mad.casual]

Sure, sure. But the real question is how does all of this tie back to a fruity cocktail served in a DC theme-bar/drink menu?

[Chumby]

Were any of the other students that attended illegal alien immigrant migrants?

[Jerry B.]

They get the front row or private box tickets. It's in the contract for presenting "Hamilton".

[Rick James]

The two went to see the musical Hamilton using tickets that had been donated to the school and were intended to be given to students who could not afford tickets to the show. But Halfkenny and Miranda each brought their sons, who do not attend Boston Public Schools.

On the one hand, they spared the poor students the experience of Hamilton— which I suspect might turn out to be considered the World’s most overrated musical in 25 years…

And, as Fist notes above, the story within the story…

There’s a full ‘luxury beliefs’ angle here, Reason– a chance to demonstrate you’ve learned what luxury beliefs are after your last debacle.