This is Betsy DeVos versus the teachers’ unions, with the Dims supporting the unions against School Choice!!!!
If the Dims had the benefit of School Choice when they were young, perhaps they would not be so Dim!!!!
By the way, this brouhaha has been trending on Twitter, which is how I know about it. And President Arnn of Hillsdale College calls Betsy DeVos “excellent”!!!!
After DeVos’s nomination for DOE Secretary, a woman I used to teach with sent out a blast e-mail saying that DeVos must be stopped at all costs because she a threat to the public schools because of her stance on school choice. I spent my career in the public schools and if they cannot survive because of school choice, then they deserve to die.
Many of the public schools’ problems stem from regulations from FedGov that require them to take every human under the age of 18 (21 if handicapped) who comes through the door. If thugs choose your school, there is little you can do to keep them out. It may be impossible to roll back these regs (You’re denying education to children!!) which would make the public schools more competitive with private/religious schools. Until the rules for public schools change it is hard to blame parents who pull their kids out of schools where their children are threatened or simply denied an education by the kids who misbehave. Many of the teachers I worked with sent their own children to local Catholic/Lutheran schools—including my principal.