Posted on 02/04/2025 6:29:33 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Texas Democrat Gene Wu said in a video posted to X on Monday that parents send their kids to private school "so they don’t have to have their kids with your kids," even though a previous social media post from him indicated he also chose private school for his children.
"How do we tell people we’re going to take your money and give it to rich people, so they can send their kids to private school, so they don’t have to have their kids with your kids," Wu told a crowd on Monday during a demonstration against a proposed school choice bill.
On Jan. 24, 2025, Texas State Senator Brandon Creighton filed Senate Bill 2, the Texas Education Freedom Act, which would give students universal access to school choice and provide at least $2,000 each year to students’ education savings account. If a family decides to enroll their child in a private school, each student would receive $10,000 per year, and students with a disability enrolling in a private school would receive $11,500 per year. A similar version of the bill reportedly failed three times in 2023......
Wu, who is the chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, has previously spoken out against school choice, saying it was a giveaway to Republican donors. In a series of posts on social media in May 2022, Wu revealed that he attended a private school and that he sent his own kids to a private school.
"I went to a private school for high school. My family would have loved to have money back... But they didn't need it. I would love to get $12k of state money for my kids in private school. BUT that doesn't seem fair in the least bit," he wrote at the time.
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Like to see school choice here in Michigan, but as long as the dems are in control it won't happen.
Rules for thee but not for me. This is beyond parody.
A Democrat hypocrite ... what a surprise ... remember that even in Russia’s communist society the government employees lived high on the hog and the common folks ate out of their garbage cans,
"Because I support such bad laws and policies, my children would be at risk of physical harm if I sent them to public school. Your kids are safe because you're a nobody."
Apparently some are more equal than others.
What a hypocrite.
Typical uppity communist....they’re ALL like that.
Yet, people continue to vote for such trash....crazy.
How much money does he get from the teachers unions?
Gene Wu Wu?
Well of course dems be like “for us the best, to hell with the rest”
That’s Wu, of the traditional Texas Wu bloodline.
“which would give students universal access to school choice and provide at least $2,000 each year to students’ education savings account. If a family decides to enroll their child in a private school, each student would receive $10,000 per year”
Will the schools be required to accept the $10,000 as a complete payment?
My granddaughter’s private school in Texas cost $30,000 a year. So the schools would have to suck up $20,000 a year? Would these students have to be interviewed and take an entrance exam? When my oldest son was in private school, the school decided to give free tuition to minority kids to enhance their basketball team. There was no entrance exam and they did not have to maintain a certain grade or flunk out like everyone else. School closed two years after.
The whole point of the revolution is to give special privileges to the vanguard of the proletariat.
None of his business.
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