Elizabeth Warren's Latest Hypocrisy
Elizabeth Warren, or as the president refers to her, Pocahantas, is at it again.
The would be sheriff of Wall Street who got rich flipping houses before 2008,
The would be sheriff of Wall Street who got rich flipping houses before 2008,
the advocate for affirmative action who falsified a Native American heritage to
get ahead in academia is now changing her mind on the school vouchers that
minority parents in underserved districts desperately need. As the Post reports:
DeVos has spent her life advocating for children and for parental choice in
education to ensure opportunity for all, regardless of race, class, gender or
ZIP code.
Such dedication is irrelevant to defenders of our nation’s dysfunctional public-
school systems. Yet at least one Senate Democrat wasn’t always a defender
of dysfunction.
Yes: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, progressive icon, once supported school vouchers.
In her 2003 book, “The Two-Income Trap” (co-authored with her daughter,
Amelia Warren Tyagi), Warren endorsed a school-voucher system to free
children from the tyranny of educrats assigning them to schools based on
where their parents can afford to live.
Warren wrote: “With fully funded vouchers, parents of all income levels
could send their children — and the accompanying financial support — to
the schools of their choice.”
Moreover, she argued that framing the issue as a “public versus private
competition” misses the key issue: “The problem is not vouchers; the
problem is parental choice.”
Warren pointed out that most public-school placement is based on ZIP code.
The only way parents can exercise any choice is to buy a home in the school
district they want — but poor families lack that option.
The solution, she asserted, is to break up the “ironclad relationship” between
ZIP code and school with a well-designed voucher system.
So Warren is perfectly ok with government bailouts for kids who go to college,
pick irrelevant majors, and end up working in a Starbucks with six figure debt.
What she's apparently not ok with, it seems, is letting poor minority children
escape from failing schools that don't give them the skills necessary to
compete in a competitive global economy.
What changed? Warren became a Democratic Senator. The entire Democratic
What changed? Warren became a Democratic Senator. The entire Democratic
agenda absolutely requires the existence of a permanent underclass that's
unable to care for themselves without government assistance, and winning
campaigns requires generous donations from the teacher's unions whose
golden ticket is threatened by school choice.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for commenting. Your comments are needed for helping to improve the discussion.