Friday, July 22, 2011

Rahm the Public School Boss to Send His Kids to Private School Far Away

John Kass explains why vouchers aren't coming to Chicago anytime soon:
Year after year, urban public schools have failed everyone, the students, the parents, everyone except the Democratic Party leaders who benefit. The unions benefit, the vendors, the bureaucrats. And they pay the Democrats with votes. Everybody wins except the poorest children.

It's cynical plantation politics, and the children are the cash crop.
Here is the mission statement for public education: it's a business for adults.