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Why having school choice is vitally important
Sep 15, 2017, 3:34 PM | Updated: Sep 22, 2017, 9:54 am
In this Aug. 9, 2017, photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is interviewed by The Associated Press in her office at the Education Department in Washington. It’s been six months since her bruising Senate confirmation battle, and DeVos remains highly divisive.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The push is on to make Betsy DeVos into a monster. And this is going on at a pseudo-academic level around school choice.
The Atlantic Magazine has a new piece on public education. And the piece starts out to be pretty interesting and provocative, but then takes a real left turn.
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Certainly the teachers unions aren’t terrorists, but they are a mob. They don’t work for the interests of the students and they don’t even reflect the interests of the teachers; the unions only work for their own interests.
They prevent teachers from being fired or downsized. They help with incremental increases in pay, but they also protect bad and sometime dangerous teachers. And that lowers the whole esteem of the profession.
The pay never goes down for the union executives though. The Democrats will never give up on the union model.
Certainly, there are great public schools. But some of our public schools are dangerous and not somewhere you would want to send your kids. Let alone the liberal bias in our schools that only teach one message.
Why isn’t school choice a fundamental right?
As always, please listen to the full audio clip for complete context.
