I’ve written about disgustingly hypocritical politicians who oppose school choice for poor families while sending their kids to private schools.
- President Obama
- President Obama’s Education Secretary
- Elizabeth Warren
- Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina
- Gov J.B. Pritzker of Illinois
Now there is another hypocrite.
The boss of the Chicago teachers union is a big opponents of choice and competition, but she sends her kid to a private school.
The Wall Street Journal editorialized about her hypocrisy.
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates has called school choice racist and made it her mission to kill an Illinois scholarship program for low-income children. So how did Ms. Gates try to explain herself this week after press reports that she has enrolled her son in a private Catholic high school? …Ms. Gates’s desire to do what’s best for her child is laudable. What’s not is to do that while denying other families the same choice. The school where her son is enrolled reportedly costs her $16,000 a year. What about those who can’t afford such a school? Illinois’s Invest in Kids program funds about 9,000 scholarships, and last year it had 31,000 applications. But the program is scheduled to sunset, and that’s exactly what the teachers unions have demanded. …Ms. Gates’s son deserves a quality education, but so do his neighbors. With any luck this controversy will improve the odds of renewing the Invest in Kids program. But the real moral and political scandal remains the same: that thousands of Chicago’s children are locked into failing public schools as part of a political job-protection program for the teachers union.
Ms. Gates is a bad person.
She is doing what is best for her kid, but doesn’t want poor parents to have the same freedom to escape bad government schools.
Incidentally, you won’t be surprised to learn that other union officials are similarly hypocritical. And high-level education bureaucrats do the same thing.
