Hypocrisy in the Teachers' Union

I would like to pretend that I'm shocked, but would you send your kids to Chicago public schools if you made enough to afford private education? Chicago Teachers' Union President, Hater Of Private Schools And School Choice, Reportedly Sends Child To Private School

Stacy Davis-Gates is undoubtedly Illinois’ most prominent and rabid opponent of school choice — and pretty much everybody and everything associated with it, all of which she labels racist or worse. As president of the Chicago Teachers Union, she is at the forefront of its campaign to kill Illinois’ meager Invest in Kids Act, which currently gives about 9,000 disadvantaged kids scholarships to attend private schools. “It must be ‘game over'” for the program, the CTU says.

But, as initially reported** by SubX News, she sends one of her kids to to Chicago’s De La Salle Institute, a private, Catholic high school.

There is no way to get around the fact that Chicago public schools are a mess, and they are not alone when it comes to education in large cities. Actually state-run schools seem to be a problem everywhere, but it is worse in the blue cities.

School choice is about getting that help to more of the poor –- creating equality of choice with those who have means. The Invest in Kids Act does that, though for too few students thanks to its paltry funding. Davis-Gates’ opposition to it and her statements about private schools, all while constantly claiming status as the poor’s heroine, are hypocrisy at its most revolting.

Hat tip to Corey A. DeAngelis, via Twitter.