The case for school choice is simple and straightforward. Government schools receive record amounts of taxpayer money and do a relatively poor job of educating children.
There are many reasons for the failure of government schools, including natural government inefficiency, but the main reason is probably that the system is controlled by teacher unions.
Indeed, it’s no exaggeration to assert that the system is run for the benefit of the unions rather than the students.
But there’s one group that I dislike more than union bosses.
The most reprehensible group of people in this field are the politicians who send their own kids to private schools while fighting to deny other families the same ability.
I have previously written about some of these hypocrites, including Barack Obama (and his Secretary of Education) as well as Elizabeth Warren. Now it is time to highlight North Carolina’s despicable governor.
Here are some excerpts from a column by Kyle Morris for Fox News.
Democrat North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a “state of emergency” this week in an attempt to prevent a school choice bill from passing the state legislature, despite sending his own daughter to a private school in Raleigh. …Cooper, highlighting efforts from Republicans in the state as a “private school voucher scheme”… The comments from Cooper come after he sent at least one of his three daughters to Saint Mary’s School, an expensive private school in Raleigh… Jason Williams, executive director of the NC Faith and Freedom Coalition, was quick to call out Cooper’s remarks in a tweet. “Why doesn’t Roy Cooper want your child to have the same quality, private education his kid had?” Williams wrote. “If he believed so much in public education, why did he spend thousands for his own kid to avoid it?” …”What a hypocrite. Public schools aren’t good enough for his kids, but they are for yours,” Independent Women’s Forum senior policy analyst Kelsey Bolar blasted.
Cooper’s supposed “state of emergency” is particularly nauseating.
He was perfectly content with a system filled with schools that failed students. But the moment teacher unions felt threatened, he sprung into action with hyperbolic rhetoric.
By the way, there’s another story that reveals additional school choice hypocrites such as Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, and J.B. Pritzker.
To appease teacher unions, all of those people are willing to sacrifice other people’s kids. But not their own.
Utterly despicable.
P.S. The “Tweet of the Year” for 2021 involved school choice.
P.P.S. There’s strong evidence for school choice from nations such as Canada, Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands.
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