I’m a big fan of charter schools and vouchers … the latter giving motivated families to send their children to provably better schools.
Congress — with Obama approval — is about to kill the demonstrably successful DC voucher program. Why? Because kids don’t vote but union members do. Pretty sad.
There are a sprinkling of articles today on the hypocrisy of government reps on the subject. They boil down to this fundamental argument:
“Some hypocrisies are apparently more equal than others. If, for example, you are a politician who preaches “traditional values” and you get caught in a hotel with a woman who is not your wife, the press is going to have a field day with your tartuffery.
If, however, you are a pol who piously tells inner-city families that public schools are the answer — and you do this while safely ensconcing your own kids in some private haven — the press corps mostly winks.
As strong as the outright opposition may be, perhaps the biggest problem faced by these parents is the Beltway’s complicity in a smarmy double standard. Two weeks ago, the Heritage Foundation highlighted this double standard with the release of a new study showing that members of Congress are sending or have sent their children to private schools … at a rate that’s more than three times the rate for rest of America.
For Democrats especially, their choice of a private school for their own families tends to make them opponents of choice for others. The bargain the teachers unions offer is this: We won’t fuss about private or parochial schools for your children, provided you don’t help any other kid get the same chance.”
From the Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124147923132785121.html
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