https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/06/20/villaraigosas-school-days/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 13:31:58 -0400<![CDATA[My hometown of Los Angeles &#8211; that well-known epicenter of hypocrisy &#8211; is a place where the vast majority of its traditionally liberal upper middle class ritually supports the State Teachers Union at the polls, but wouldn&#8217;t dream of sending their children to the public schools where its members teach. Everyone knows those schools (with a few exceptions) are wretched, yet hardly anyone seems willing to break with tradition, even though private school tuitions are rapidly heading north of thirty thousand per annum, leaving all but the extremely wealthy in their wakes. Soon enough the best schools will be havens of the mega-rich, with students in two hundred dollar designer jeans, arriving in Porsches, etc., leavened only by a handful of scholarship-students-of-color chosen, literally and figuratively, for face.]]>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:44:16 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2006/06/20/villaraigosas-school-days-n212510