This was the biggest takeaway I took from his "thank you" speech. Robert De Niro said that he and his fellow actors keep making movies so they can keep their children in private schools. It was a joke and not to be taken out of context.
Meanwhile this from the DrudgeReport: Detroit, Michigan, may have to close half its schools (from 142 to 72) and increase class size to 62 students/classroom/teacher at the high school level.
Two comments:
- With regard to the "thank you" speech -- the gap between the elitists and the "have-nots" continues to widen.
- As a substitute teacher, I know there is a way to manage classrooms at the high school level with 62 students/classroom, but it takes some "out-of-the-box" thinking. After all, college professors have upwards of 100's per classroom.
Now that GM (Government Motors) and Ford are returning to profit, I wonder if they are helping the Detroit school system. Oh, that's right -- talking heads more and more refer to Dearborn, Michigan, not Detroit, for one of the car companies. Dearborn and Detroit share a common "border."
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