This weekend I happened across an ad on The World website linking to the BS Oregon website. The ad, pictured here, asks the question, “Should Jordan Cove pay for our kids’ schools or Portland’s?” Screen Shot 2014-05-24 at 10.01.52 AMThe debate has definitely devolved when anyone stoops to using our kids against other people’s kids, particularly when our schools are 76% funded by other people’s kids.

Proponent of the CEP (community enhancement plan) and the SCCF (South Coast Community Foundation) component definitely don’t want to share the Jordan Cove spoils, leaving only 25% for the taxing districts and putting the rest into two private nonprofits. Still, are they so desperate as to create a villain out of the rest of Oregon’s school children?

Admittedly, I am opposed to the privatization of public money but I found the ad offensive in the extreme. It smacks of class warfare on the one hand implying Portland is rich and its schools well funded while we are poor and underprivileged. On the other hand it lacks scruples, pitting our poor children against those elite kids in the big city. Ugh!