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Occupy…North Pole! Pricey Private School‘s ’Christmas’ Play Skewers Big Oil, Corporate Greed

If you assumed the “Occupy” movement finally reached its geographical (and outdoor-temperature) limits, you obviously haven‘t been hanging out with ol’ Saint Nick for the past few months.

Seems Santa got canned. That’s right…Father Christmas fell victim to a hostile takeover by greedy oil financiers who discovered a potential bubblin’ crude nirvana beneath his fabled workshop.

Worse yet, his beloved elves were outsourced…and now Big Brother is assuming the duties of checking Santa’s list…and…

Okay, better to simply lend an ear to the dramatic narration of Barbara Kibler (see video below)—a dance and religion instructor at George School, a tony Quaker boarding/day school about a half hour north of Philadelphia—who came up with the decidedly left-leaning theme for this year’s Holiday Dance Performance:

Initially all was rosy up north, Kibler told the gathered crowd on Friday…

Santa had a wonderful workshop in the North Pole called “Santa & Friends: We Make Toys with Love.” They made toys and sweets for children around the world. It didn’t matter what the race, ethnicity, or religion the child was, the shop was there for all.

Then evil capitalists plowed in (their acronym in the play, in fact, is GREED), giving everyone from Ebeneezer Scrooge to Burgermeister Meisterburger a run for their cold hard cash…

Occupy...North Pole! Pricey Private Schools Christmas Play Skewers Big Oil, Corporate Greed | George School | Quaker

The shop was sitting on a potential oil field…using eminent domain laws, Santa’s workshop was closed. The elves’ work was outsourced, and the elves lost their jobs. A multinational conglomerate took over the shop and the making and distribution of the toys and instituted strict rules for visits. An independent consulting firm was hired to do background checks on children in order to determine who was naughty or nice.

But fortunately for youngsters barely able to catch a wink on Christmas Eve—and who would have otherwise found lumps of coal in their carefully hung stockings—the good folks with the Occupy movement caught wind of the greed afoot at the top of the world…

But little did Santa know that far and beyond, a steady drumbeat—yes, a movement—was swelling, and the masses were organizing, and the dispossessed were finding their strength and their voices and their power to declare, “We are one, and we’re not gonna take this anymore!” Occupy North Pole was born.

Occupy...North Pole! Pricey Private Schools Christmas Play Skewers Big Oil, Corporate Greed | George School | Quaker

 

The performance aimed to “get everyone in the spirit of Christmas,” said Shelly Chipimo, class of 2013—a boarding student from Pretoria, South Africa—by creating “a story centered on a Christmas tradition.”

Of the show’s “current events” focus, Kibler said that “we all need to be politically and socially aware…we have to step up and help each other.”

With students tapping their parents’ bank accounts to the tune of $31,780 to $45, 710 annually to attend the Newtown, Pa., institution, it‘s a bit of a stretch to imagine anyone on stage or in the audience relating on a practical level to what’s motivating the OWS army…but it’s always nice to be aware.

(h/t: Gateway Pundit, Missouri Education Watchdog)

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  • gpk
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:49am

    I find it rather odd that most (probably the majority) of teachers and professors rail against corporate greed especially big oil. Yet I wonder how much oil stock their pension plans hold? Idiots all.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:59am

      A friend of Warren Buffet and someone who became his business partner gave the school millions a few years back. Buffet has been to the school several times. I guess it’s okay to take money made from Big Business.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:18am

      And YAY!!! More indoctrination at the taxpayers expense! Isn‘t it incredible that members of Congress can’t say “Merry Christmas” in this country but schools can mock Christmas to suit the progressive agenda. Still I pray…..God Bless America!

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    • copatriots
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:30am

      Oops…..a private school. Somehow I still think they are receiving taxpayer funds. Lefties always seems to find a way to scam the system. They are so enlightened.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:52am

      They rail against big oil and corp. greed when they get to the school in a car made by a corporation fueled by big oil. Everything they use ,eat and wear made possible by a corporation . Take it all away from them and they would be the first to perish.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:52am

      drattastic: “Take it all away from them and they would be the first to perish.”

      How? Any ideas?

      Funny thing is that Big Oil in particular has one of the lowest profit margins amongst the “Big”. Yet people are calling it “obscene profits”.

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    • shirleyandpearl
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Good point! They are taking retirement funds from efforts of companies that do a lot of good! I am surprised that this school isn’t in Seattle! Seattle is full of these well-to-do “gentry” progressives, who draw in serious dough from the very entities they complain about at their cocktail parties and in the foyer before the opera performance, to just sound “socially aware”.

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    • jzs
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:29pm

      I’ve read a lot of bitter posts here. That’s sad. Posts from people who want the best education for their children, as we all do, but who cannot afford to send their children to private schools. So you mock this school for their Christmas play. The kids who are performing are getting a much better education than your child is in public school, so to assuage your guilt with mockery. I‘m reminded of Aesop’s fable of the fox and the grapes. Your children can’t attend a private school of this kind, so you say you would never send your kid here (as if you could afford it, which you can’t).

      There is an irony when anyone on this website resents the rich. You support the rich as long as you can hold onto the idea that supporting the rich is supporting freedom (not sure what freedom, but whatever) and that the richest will trickle their wealth upon you you, if you are nice, not naughty.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:06pm

      @ JZS You are sorely mistaken. I for one could easily afford to send my son to George School (as a day student)-(actually grew up very close to and am saddened but not really surprised by this news) for high school as well as a private school that runs between $20-25,000 for prek – twelfth grade. Yes all 14 years, because my husband and I waited to have our son until we could afford to have him, do not live above our means, actually much lower, and are not in debt except for our home and my student loan.

      My husband and I have made the choice to homeschool however, as we have found that in even private schools that claim to support Christianity, Liberalism is being spewed at the children and we want our son to have conservative values, understand true economics, and understand the real history not only of our nation, but the world.

      I am not jealous. I truly believe that too many parents don‘t realize what is going on in their children’s schools. I actually went on a tour of a school where the admissions director and another parent were “teasing” about being a progressive school. I immediately left the tour and went home. I fear for our country and my child’s future. What kids are learning and surely what they aren’t learning is going to come back and bite us in the behind, as we can already see today.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on December 19, 2011 at 12:02am

      Kim Jong Il is now DEAD…..
      JSZ is weeping for his dead father….

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    • DirtyDeeds
      Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:03am

      How much oil did it take to make their polyester costumes?

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    • Wolf
      Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:18am

      What’s even more bewildering is why these obviously well-heeled parents didn‘t rise up and tell the school they’re withdrawing their children if that is the kind of trash the school is teaching them.

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    • jzs
      Posted on December 19, 2011 at 4:53pm

      dmforman, thanks for the post. You’re lucky to have the option of sending your child(en) to a private school. And I’m a believer in home schooling if you can afford to do that and have the skills, which I’m sure you do.

      But I do wonder if you’d find any school anywhere you felt was not too liberal for your childrens education. I think your ideas about “truth” (about history say) may be different that most people’s.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on December 19, 2011 at 5:51pm

      @JZS ROSE

      Are they lucky? Or did they work hard and apply themselves to be able to do what they desire?

      And I don’t think their ideas are different than “most” people, just different than “most” liberals.

      That’s Saul Folks

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    • GEORGE_SCHOOL_JR
      Posted on December 20, 2011 at 6:47am

      Wolf and others,
      I lean toward the conservative side with most issues, especially in regards to economics. I attend George School, take part in their esteemed IB program, and am extremely active in the community. I, personally, missed the dance show due to a family illness but I want to say this: There are two ways, I believe, to establish a nonpartisan environment; that is, to completely evade all political and potentially controversial topics (inspiring mindless following and worldly ignorance) or to balance views from both “sides” and to teach through debate. In the real world, we future voters will be bombarded with propaganda and political lies from both major parties. And we will have long-ago acquired the crucial ability to see through the ********. Maybe this show was a joke (much like the dance curriculum) or maybe it was some slanted regime but, either way, it is a small slice of the whole GS media pizza pie. We have more than a handfull of openly homosexual students and faculty, yet there was an assembly not many years ago that began with a speaker saying (forgive any slight misquote), “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Adam.” I don’t even love George School, but for those internet prowlers out there, know that this is not a daily occurance and as a student here, I have learned when to laugh and when to stand up. Laugh, it’s Christmas time. Oh. And I’m Jewish. Live and let live. I’m against OWS. Strongly. But I’m not against individual thought.

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    • The thought police
      Posted on December 20, 2011 at 8:51am

      Yet I wonder how much oil stock their pension plans hold?

      Mine has none, but I wonder why so much hate on this forum? You have the right to educate your children how you choose (presumably), but many people don’t. If this were a public school then you could perhaps make the case about indoctrination of the Innocent, but it is not a public school, and the parents of those who attend have selected this school because of its values and ideology. The fact that so many people on this forum want “them” to be stopped suggests that many people on this forum are indeed afraid of a government that allows free speech and independent thinking.

      I appreciate the fact that people in this country are permitted to disagree with my political views, but I am growing wary of the hate. All of you need to get out a little more and talk to actual people…in your own neighborhood…and then in the neighborhood you fear most. You may find that the political rhetoric you espouse is not on as solid a foundation as your disdain for alternative viewpoints appears to be.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:43am

    Bunch of candyass libs complaining about capitalism,same old song and dance,‘big oil’ isn’t paying their fair share.They’re right, ‘big oil’ is paying way to much and by big oil I mean us,because we pay the tax it‘s just that these intellectuals aren’t smart enough to figure it out.

    I have an idea let’s have the government nationalize the oil companies,then we’ll all get free oil and gas these morons actually believe that.It’ll be great we can all freeze to death together because the government cares so much for us lol.And the gas, it‘ll be so much fun sitting in long lines for hours trying to fill up but can’t because of the shortage,it‘ll be just like the 70’s when another A hole was president just like now.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:03am

      Liberals aren’t smart enough to realize that the public, those taking the service of the company pay the taxes levied by the government on them. The company isn’t going to lose money, as it pays it’s taxes. They will raise the price of their goods and services to ensure that they make at least the same amount of profits as before and hopefully more. These higher prices make goods and services cost more and often put a burden on low income families who purchase these goods and services. The higher prices also effect the cost of other goods and services. When it comes to oil and gas, the price of everything transported rises. It’s not a difficult concept to understand, but one that appears foreign to liberals.

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  • My2
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:41am

    Why would greedy capitalists want to takeover Santa’s gig? Isn’t the whole premise that he gives away toys to children anti-thetical to a greedy capitalist’s agenda? They don’t need to get into giving away toys in order to drill for oil, and if they are still giving away the toys to the children, even if it is with stricter criteria, aren’t they still GIVING AWAY toys, how is that greedy? And if they are instead selling the toys, if people are willing to buy them, why should anyone else care what goes on between a wlling buyer and a willing seller?

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  • BadgerBenson
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:35am

    These commies stole my idea. Though I’ve been mocking the movement with my Occupy North Pole material. http://twitter.com/#!/OccupyNP2011

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  • ares338
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:27am

    My child would not have participated or shown up to to see it. Some things are just WRONG.

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  • obamamustgo
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:07am

    These idiots must be stopped!

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  • merrick29
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:54am

    That lady is a disgrace.

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:52am

    The school caters to red diaper babies, the second wave of 60′s lefties. Interesting that the students disparage the system, considering that annual fees and tuition run $45,710 (the $32k number is for day students) a year, before books.. Assuming attendance for grades 9-12, that comes to a tidy $182,840…, just for 4 years of high school. These kids (or at least their instructor) are poster children for liberal hypocrisy.
    A few choice graduates :
    Julian Bond, ‘57, civil rights leader and chairman of the NAACP
    Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panthers leader, wife of Eldridge Cleaver
    Darlington Hoopes, politician, Socialist Party of America candidate for U.S. president in 1952 and 1956

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    • GS_Kid
      Posted on December 20, 2011 at 11:12am

      Can I ask why having an NAACP leader as a graduate is something we should be ashamed of? Call me liberally indoctrinated, but I think that conservatives and liberals alike should be able to respect the work of a civil rights leader as important as Julian Bond.

      Additionally, in response to your and others’ comments about the high tuition here at GS, people fail to notice that unlike the more elite, more conservative private schools, 20% of George School students receive financial aid. We aren’t a concentration of upper class snobs, we’re a Quaker school that is known for its acceptance of all.

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    • GS2010
      Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:52pm

      RE: GS_KID’s assertion that “20% of George School students receive financial aid”:

      This figure is actually inaccurate. 20% of George School students receive financial aid from the school’s endowment/aid budget. MANY more students (probably twice that figure) receive financial aid from external aid programs, their own religious communities, etc. I think the average reader of this article has the wrong idea about what the average George School student looks like.

      I attended George School throughout high school. My time there actually made me more conservative, because the study of history and the economy at GS does not center on a liberal perspective, and instead provides information so that students can draw their own subjective conclusions.

      Someone above me in the comments thread said that we all use cars which run on gas to get to school. I’d just like to interject that the majority of my teachers at George School live on campus, as do almost half of all students (myself included, when I attended).

      And before you condemn Barb Kibler, who is by all accounts an eccentric person, allow me to say that for years she has dedicated her energies to volunteer work. I have volunteered with her in the past, and know her to be good and kind. Her creative freedom as dance teacher afforded her the opportunity to make this show, which I think is somewhat inappropriate. But you don’t know George School, and from the sound of it, you also don’t know the Quaker way. Hatre

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  • CJohnWest
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:35am

    If you can’t tell that the pied piper and the devil are teaming up with the “tubs” (see Wilhelm Reich) to steal your children’s souls you are not paying attention. Think of it this way, you let you kids tell you what good is, what fun is, what whatever is, but who told them? There is no point in letting this queer (literal intent) society continue, save the children from the Hitler Youth program that is our public schools. The problem is when all the left has left is their snotty angst, society will have forgotten everything important and we will die off not knowing how to build a fire, yeah metropolitan kids, can you build a fire? a pulley? A fulcrum and lever? no? that’s what I thought. OWS is a measure of our societies ignorance.

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:30am

    So you don’t like big oil compamies………………..you can be cold and hungry while you set in the dark.

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  • Miami
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:28am

    Why is it the would be victims of Communist or Fascist society are always the ones calling for it?

    As history has shown time and again everyone of these revolutions have always eaten those dialogs. Purge after purge and yet these “intellectuals” can’t seem to gleam any truth from history. As if they are smarter than the lessons they’ve learned or failed to learn.

    How many times can you bash your head against the wall before you realize there’s nothing to be gain…?

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  • rogue operator
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:13am

    I’ve noticed the left trying to commandeer Christmas in particular earnest this year. The environmentalists have done it with the “melting” North Pole meme and that “Republicans want to kill Santa Claus: http://wp.me/p1a0cT-2g5

    Another thing the lefties have done in the media is “sexualize” Christmas: http://wp.me/p1a0cT-2kb

    We need to fight the left on cultural grounds.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z6hvmWDYiCY

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  • oldironsides
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:10am

    talk about the ‘bottom of the barrel’, you are an ignorant racist – yourself a product from the shallow end of the gene pool

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  • lukerw
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:02am

    Dear Libby: When your Money has no Value… there is no Energy, and you are peeing Ice Cubes… join the other Lemmings.

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    • Miami
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:43am

      You know what would be great Corporations around the world got together and formed a stick to show the ignorant’s what the world would be like without them. How life would come to a crawl without them.

      They seem to love to bash the police as well, they don’t realize that the police is protecting them from themselves. What would happen if they had their lawless desire, As they attack properties that are not willing to be occupied, defended by well armed private forces who wouldn’t be arresting anyone…

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:53am

    Big Oil Corporations have giving me much more in the way of freedom than any big government program. I would rather have them run this country……….

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  • NashEast
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:29am

    Now that’s the Christmas play I want to see!

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  • namron019
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:29am

    What I would like to know is how much does the school cost! Because we wouldn’t want them to being making money capitalist cash for education would we? It should be free correct?

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    • RightThinking1
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:59am

      See my comment above, ~$183,000 for 4 years (grades 9-12) as a resident student.

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    • GS2010
      Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:58pm

      @ RIGHTHINKING1:

      That’s only true for about the richest 20% of students there.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:25am

    Hmmmm….. WHO gave us oil in the earth for us to discover and put to use?
    WHOSE birthday are we celebrating? (Don’t go all “We don’t know the date of HIS birth” on me, or I’ll pull out that damn race card and cite the other one whose REAL statistics remain hidden from us).
    WHO gave life to these children and WHO loves them beyond measure?

    People, we are at fault for allowing this to continue “on our watch”. Time to humble ourselves before GOD and beg HIS forgiveness for our lack of vigilance and obedience, I think. By pointing our fingers at others, we are sounding like the enemy. Time (past time, really) to “man up”, accept responsibility and clean up the mess we have allowed to happen.

    In JESUS’ name, amen.

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  • Choctaw25
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:23am

    As always, the leftist liberal refused to show or admit that the root cause of all this type of behaviour is big government regulations. When big government takes over the private sector and attempts to rule it with an iron fist, the private sector reacts by moving to where there is less interference with their business. Business 101……… but they don’t teach business tactics anymore to the young mush heads of today. But, even the mush heads will learn sooner or later that at some point you run out of others peoples money and the whole theory implodes on top of them. Ask the people of Spain, Greece, France and all points Europe. Even the people of Russia are starting to come out of their communist induced coma.
    You are what you have chosen to be in America, it’s all in the choices you make. Choose to make something of youself and the opportunity is there (but not for long if the Democrats have their way), choose to be a LOSER and shazam, you’re a LOSER.
    We keep giving to the losers around this time of the year and shazam, the same losers show up the following year for another hand-out, “for the children”. Did the loser try to work during the year, did the loser try to enroll in all the free classes offered to them. The answer is as it always will be, a loud resounding HE?? NO.
    This little rich white boy enabler of the losers has had it, my wallet is closed forever.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:10am

    Objection to Big Government is the hidden agenda truth behind Big Oil. While Barack Hussein Obama Jr says he objects to Big Oil Corporations, he’s a Fabian, person of opposite actions, he personally makes certain oil companies succeed so to gain higher taxes.

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  • jetmech568
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:04am

    Really? This is what they call a play, geez this is just stupid.
    This country is in real trouble, Jesus is the reason for the season and we need to get back to that not this crap.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:52am

      We are definitely in trouble. As a conservative Quaker, I am outraged by this play and display of Christmas. I now know that I made the right choice of not sending my son to our local Quaker School, and chose to homeschool him instead. There are many aspects of Quaker beliefs that I love, but the liberal bent is something that I realize I can no longer ignore. Church shopping will begin after Christmas, and I will be looking for a church that understands and displays the true meaning of Christianity.

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    • hnp1014
      Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:03pm

      Points of Reference: **This is not a “play”, it is a small satirical, yet thought provoking, dance show performed during a school assembly for the entertainment of students and faculty. **Nearly 47 percent of students at this school are on some sort of financial aid. 23 percent of the school’s operating budget goes towards this aid, allowing intelligent and promising students an opportunity to learn what it takes to make a difference in this world. I would also like to remind you that Obama, Roosevelt, Clinton, and Nixon children all attended Quaker schools.

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  • Miami
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 6:55am

    If this country has any hope for the future Universities, Colleges and schools in general need to be cleaned out of these morons

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:33am

      The moron in charge probably makes a nice chunk of dough from the parents fee because of her “qualifications” and up up and away in our beautiful balloon to OWS they go. Degree in fantasy world of “dance”. Terminology: University of Dipsticks, study in more mindless twits taught by old hippie ****. Are these Kibler’s elves?

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    • GS2010
      Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:10pm

      @Texasgranny:

      NO ONE works at George School because of the salary. They don’t get paid anywhere near what their public school counterparts do.

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  • Jomil48
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 6:54am

    Greedy capitalists, LOL, santa’s workshop is on an oil field, what has become of sanity in this world anymore? If this doesn’t wake people up and show them how close we are to losing our nation and freedoms, then it is already to late.

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:37am

      Unfortunately when SHTF, people like them who have no clue and who are not prepared will probably die. I guess that’s one way to purge the system! But seriously, it’s a shame that they are breeding a new crop of leftists, but I know my conservative daughter would have a field day in a debate with these kids.

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  • Miami
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 6:50am

    What the hell is wrong with these people…?

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:53am

      Probably ate too many lead paint chips when they were kids.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:34am

      I am simply AMAZED that Moochelle hasn’t started a 1 billion DIET PLAN for Santa Claus!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • barber2
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:02pm

      GEORGIE: And the Fat Man had better cut out that pipe smoking…global warming.. air pollution…

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on December 18, 2011 at 6:47am

    Quaker school. Say no more.

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