Condoleezza Rice Makes a Brilliant Case for School Choice
“If you’re really wealthy, you will send your kids to private school. So who’s stuck in failing neighborhood schools? Poor kids. A lot of them minority kids.”
The left is resisting school choice but this is where things are headed whether they like it or not.
FOX News reports:
Condoleezza Rice defends school choice, argues that it is a race issue: ‘Are you for school choice or not?’
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the need for school choice in the U.S., stating that the lack of school freedom primarily negatively impacts low-income minority students.
Rice, the current director of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, addressed educational freedom at a fireside chat focused on democracy at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institution in Simi Valley, California, on June 6.
“So are you for school choice or not? We already have a choice system in education,” Rice said. “If you are of means, you will move to a district where the schools are good and the houses are expensive, like Palo Alto, California.”
“If you’re really wealthy, you will send your kids to private school. So who’s stuck in failing neighborhood schools? Poor kids. A lot of them minority kids.”
Rice argued that not having school choice negatively impacts low-income families by regulating them to underfunded school districts.
“How can you say you’re for civil rights, how can you say you’re for the poor when you’re condemning those children to not being able to read?” Rice said. “By the time they’re in third grade, they’re never going to read.”
Watch the video below:
Condoleezza Rice ON FIRE for school choice:
"How can you say you're for civil rights? How can you say you're for the poor? When you're condemning those children to not being able to read?"
She also calls out hypocrites opposing school choice who send their own kids to private. pic.twitter.com/nnE10WHtII
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) June 20, 2024
Featured image via Twitter video.
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pay teachers directly making it a business contract
game over for the haters
with heavy hitters like j-z on board with this (charter school) the gop should be standing on the mountain tops screaming this
does the gop want the unions to succeed?????
what is the gop afraid of ???
they didnt do jack during the demvid19 takeover
This is very well stated!
Nah, it won’t make a dent in the braindead.
Mentally, Condoleeza is coming at this from the same informed direction as we would here — that government screws up and shortchanges everything it touches, so the solution is to get government out of the loop.
Meanwhile, the braindead view the government as mommy, daddy, and Jesus Christ. (“Where my Lysol wipes?!”) They see the problem as needing to pour even more money into those black-hole government schools… other people’s money (of course!) such as the 1% of delicious rich who “aren’t paying their taxes.”
If this message does anything more than get ignored, it will more likely backfire than solve anything, There is a choir, and there are the irredeemables, and this is a nice speech to Condi’s choir, but that’s it.
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Nothing against Condoleezza Rice, but come on. This is a glaringly obvious argument that anyone with two functional brain cells has been making for decades. And it has failed to move the needle. What’s different now?
People most affected by this are starting to pay attention to people who care about children instead of the democrat party, the MSM, and the anti-education establishment. They are being given more options and the Covid-19 lock down revealed a lot more about how the government is failing us.
The biggest thing that happened to propel the move to choice was covid: parents not on got to see what their kids were being fed, they were all but forced to do so. Now about 1 kid in 6 is getting homeschooled.
1 in 6!
That’s huge. Ten years ago, it was probably less than 1 in 20. Naturally, the teachers’ unions are screaming about this, demanding that kids be required to attended regular schools. And to them I have two words, the first of which is a hard, guttural Germanic word. The second is “you.”
I don’t remember C. Rice as being all that great. Maybe she’s come around, or maybe her idea is going to be something like you can send your kid out of district to any public school and the receiving school has to accept them. Just not trusting it for now.
correct
but the gop is/was sooo desperate to have nay poc on board they jumped at the chance
michael steele??
ahahahahahahahahhaaa
now with trump its getting better b/c some poc who publicly back trump have money
and are pushing a less left ( BUT STILL LEFT) agenda
america is in bigggger trouble
maga!!
correction
any
notice how the gop still wants the government to run this!!!
traitors!!!!!!!!!!!
‘poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids’