Incredible: Chicago Teachers Union Boss Accidentally Champions School Choice

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Incredible: Chicago Teachers Union Boss Accidentally Champions School Choice

 

Let's start by examining with the very beginning and very end of this excerpt.  She claims that policies in Chicago are written by "millionaires" and "billionaires," labeling these bogeymen "violent forces."  She also writes that the Powers That Be "engage in fraudulent practices" resulting in "substandard services to Black and Brown families."  Chicago is one of the bluest cities in the country, located in a Democrat-dominated state.  Unions wield more influence in Illinois, and Cook County in particular, than almost anywhere else in the United States.  If Ms. Davis-Gates really believes that Chicago's institutions are shot through with systemic racism, and that families of color are being forced into "substandard services," she's really indicting her political party, her ideology, and her union.  They run the state and the town.  They have for generations.

 

The more important takeaway from her missive is the powerful case she makes for school choice, albeit inadvertently.  She explains that she and her husband decided that a private school was the best fit for their son because he wants to "live out his dream as a soccer player."  Not only that, they also preferred the private school's curriculum that can fulfuill her child's "social and emotional needs."  She admits that her local public school doesn't offer these opportunities to her satisfaction, so she's doing what is best for her kid.  But a primary purpose of her job as a union boss is to fight against other, poorer parents' ability to make precisely the sort of choices and calculations that she has.  She wants their children stuck in the failing schools she represents.  This is callous.  This is deeply hypocritical.  And it's 'privilege' of the worst sort.  Another teachers union boss was on television this weekend arguing for increased levels of more "equitable" spending as the supposed solution to serious problems in our education system.  We'll get to her predictable talking points below, but first let's review how serious matters have gotten:

 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/09/11/teachers-union-boss-accidentally-endorses-school-choice-n2628208

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