June 17, 2005
Why Are Liberals Pro-Union and Anti-Schoolchildren?You'd think everyone, regardless of politics, would welcome and praise the results of Florida's education reform.
Most remarkable has been minority student progress. While the percentage of white third-graders reading at or above grade level has increased to 78% from 70% in 2001, the percentage among Hispanic third-graders has climbed from 46% to 61%, and among blacks from 36% to 52%. Graduation rates for Hispanic students have increased from 52.8% before the program started to 64% today; and for black students from 48.7% to 57.3%. Minority schoolchildren are not making such academic strides anywhere else.You'd think these results would earn applause. But not for the orthodox Leftists in America. For them, demonstrable proof that school choice works is no reason to drop their religious opposition to it.
The usual cast of characters that has opposed parental choice programs in other states-teachers unions, the American Civil Liberties Union, and People for the American Way-mounted a legal attack on the Florida program as the ink was drying.Now, as is all too common in America, the policy decision will be made not by elected representatives of the people but by our robed judicial masters. If the Court strikes down Florida's unambiguously successful education reform, the kids will be the losers while a handful of radical leftist groups will be the winners. Is that really all they stand for anymore?
Posted by Jonathan R. on June 17, 2005 11:17 AM
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I'm beginning to believe that the anti-school choice movement is less about being pro-union and protecting teachers and is really more about being pro-indoctrination. Leftist groups do not care about unions, they only care that they advance their leftist agenda. If more states adopt the school choice program that has been successful in Florida and more parents choose to send their kids to schools in which left-wing people are not in control, that hurts the left-wing agenda of pushing anti-America rhetoric, revisionist American and World History, multiculturalism, diversity and sex education in which they promote sex and condom use as well as the homosexual lifestyle. You know that if the NEA and the majority of teachers were made up of conservatives, the left-wing groups would be championing school choice.
"Is that really all they stand for anymore?"
I'm going to assume you are asking a rhetorical question here, because the answer is obvious.
Posted by: MICHAEL in MI ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.gopbloggers.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at June 17, 2005 11:44 AM
Horrors!
An educated minority may not vote Democrat. More may be sucessful and (ahhhhhhhh!) grow up to actually find a well paying career rather than collecting welfare or working a dead-end job flipping burgers & mowing lawns. This could lead to them making up their own voting decisions rather than voting Democrat-by-Birth. This must be stopped! (sarcasm off)
Posted by: Troll at June 17, 2005 02:34 PM
