Michelle Rhee: Radical

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From Michelle Rhee: My Break With the Democrats - As a lifelong Democrat, controversial education reformer Michelle Rhee never thought she’d support school vouchers. Until she did. In Radical, she details her transformation:

Here’s the question we Democrats need to ask ourselves: Are we beholden to the public school system at any cost, or are we beholden to the public school child at any cost? My loyalty and my duty will always be to the children.

Not everyone bought it. In fact, most of my Democrat friends remained adamantly opposed to vouchers. It was interesting, though: they were always opposed to the broad policy, but they could never reconcile their logic when thinking at the individual-kid level.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 13:42 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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You know, of course, that the next logical step is to do away with public schools.

I put one kid through RC schools. I have another still in RC high school.

The wife and I work at fundraisers (we also attend them, which all good RC's know is quite fun). Money raised at the fundraisers keeps tuition down and provides scholarships. A lot more could be provided in scholarships if I wasn't paying over $3,700 in school taxes in addition to the RC tuition.

I am optimistic. I think technology will fix this problem, allowing the RC system to greatly expand the number of students served. Other churches will get in on this too.

The public schools will soon only serve those students whose parents don't care.

(Sort of off topic: That recent Department of Education ruling that public school sports must serve disabled students just hammered another nail in the coffin of K-12 education.)

#1 Mike (Link) on 2013-02-05 14:47 (Reply)

Teachers' unions and administrators are beholden to themselves. They say "it's for the children", but that is clearly false.

#2 Sam L. on 2013-02-05 20:01 (Reply)

Michelle Rhee avoids the real question: "why is she a Democrat?"

She focuses, rightly, on vouchers and school choice, but she shouldn't be afraid to go to the next logical level.

Democrats policy prescriptions harm the poor and the middle class. Higher taxes hurt the poor especially, costing jobs and retarding social mobility. Government intrusion into the mortgage markets make mortgages less available. Government sponsored college loans have raised the cost of education to outrageous levels, even whil diluting it's value as crony Democrats have started up diploma mills to soak up as much of the government loans as possible.

We could all go on and on, as (probably) could Michelle Rhee. Why then is she a Democrat?

#3 MTF on 2013-02-06 09:27 (Reply)

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Michelle Rhee: Radical