Teacher’s unions have been fighting school choice for years because they care more about protecting crappy schools and crappier teachers than they do making sure kids have access to the best education. You’d think Nikole Hannah-Jones would be making a case FOR school choice where the money would follow the student, not the schools … but no.
All you have to do is talk about is integrating schools to see the truth about how poorly people of every political stripe think of Black children.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 18, 2020
Wanting to make sure kids have a choice means someone thinks poorly of Black children?
Huh?
I think I will never get over how disdainfully people talk about 10, 11-year-old children as lacking talents & gifts & being undeserving of the same educations they absolutely demand for their own children, how we think their academic fates should be determined by the 5th grade.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 18, 2020
Where is this happening?
Our society ensures certain children live in segregated, struggling neighborhoods, that they are born into disadvantage, then we send them to schools that reinforce that disadvantage, and then we say because they are disadvantaged they deserve to remain so.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 18, 2020
Society.
K.
So as we said above, school choice would literally be a way out of that systemic cycle, yes?
school choice would help fix that.
— Rani ~ Last of the Red Hot Boomers ??? (@MilitaryRosary) December 20, 2020
School choice literally came about to stymie integration, but nice try.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 20, 2020
WHAT?!
Wow, she has a lot of bad takes … just sayin’.
ℹ This statement is disputed.
— Mike_OntheLam (@Mike_OntheLam) December 21, 2020
Heh.
why not acknowledge what is right in her point? It can be true that many just want to gain personal advantage from vouchers/choice but also true that some public schools would improve with competition
— Waiting for the Realignment (@kikihia1) December 21, 2020
Ding ding ding.
Absurd.
— President-Elect Katherine McKinney ✝️ (@CrankyKat) December 21, 2020
School choice segregates children of parents who care from those who don't.
— Squatch XXL (@Squatch_XXL) December 21, 2020
Oof.
That’s absolutely false, but nice try. https://t.co/QEljt63ARO
— Master Grinch (@CyberWonton) December 21, 2020
Just a lie. It’s core purpose is to help black and brown students and rural poor have access to the same education that privileged white kids have.
— *Juris* Doctor McZehut ? (@McZehut) December 21, 2020
Here are some facts about voucher programs that Hannah-Jones might want to take a gander at:
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) December 21, 2020
The evidence also suggests today's private school voucher programs generally lead to integration.pic.twitter.com/dqNQADBauO
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) December 21, 2020
Whoda thunk it?
.@PhilWMagness also sets the record straight on the history of school choice in School Choice Myths:https://t.co/eyiy2RK9O2
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) December 21, 2020
.@PhilWMagness & @CWSurprenant also wrote about the history of school choice here:https://t.co/1t6e6XUdqE
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) December 21, 2020
The reality of public schools and the unions who protect them.
That’s the story here, the story too few people are willing to talk about.
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