O'Reilly Blames “Decline Of Discipline” In Poor Schools For “White Flight”

Bill O'Reilly: “Nobody Who Can Afford Private School Will Send Their Kids To These Schools. Nobody”

From the January 12 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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BILL O'REILLY (HOST): Personal story segment tonight, the decline of discipline in some American high schools. Here in New York City you can be found with drugs in the school. Not be suspended. You can threaten a teacher or security guard, not be suspended. You can can even get into a physical altercation and little will happen to you. For example, at the Adlai Stevenson High School complex in the Bronx, poor area, student reportedly found with seven bags of marijuana -- that means that student is a dealer. He was handed a warning card that said, “Please bring this card home to your parents so you can discuss the matter with them.” Oh I'm sure the dope dealer just ran right home and discussed it with his parents, if he even had parents. Also the high school did not identify the dealer student to the cops. Didn't tell them.

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O'REILLY: I feel this, Katie, is biased against the poor. That's what this is. Cause this would never happen in the white collar schools. Alright, where I live, seven bags of marijuana, you get a card, discuss it with your parents? Enough. This is -- we don't care about these kids in the Bronx. We don't care about these kids in South Central Los Angeles. We don't care. So we're not going to get involved with them because they're beyond hope. That's what this is, Katie.

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O'REILLY: And they wonder why there is white flight, middle class flight out of these neighborhoods. You go in, nobody who can afford private school will send their kids to these schools. Nobody.

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