Obama: Double-Standard On Education

A good piece from yesterday's WSJ. Names names. [see post from last week] (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Don't miss these quotes.

When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
-- Albert Shanker, Former President of the American Federation of Teachers

The education of all children,
from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.
-- Karl Marx

William McGurn Says Barack Obama Is Upholding a Double Standard on School Vouchers - WSJ.com: "That's the reality that the Parkers and 1,700 other low-income students face if Sen. Durbin and his allies get their way. And it points to perhaps the most odious of double standards in American life today: the way some of our loudest champions of public education vote to keep other people's children -- mostly inner-city blacks and Latinos -- trapped in schools where they'd never let their own kids set foot. This double standard is largely unchallenged by either the teachers' unions or the press corps. For the teachers' unions, it's a fairly cold-blooded calculation. They're willing to look the other way at lawmakers who chose private or parochial schools for their own kids -- so long as these lawmakers vote in ways that keep the union grip on the public schools intact and an escape hatch like vouchers bolted."

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