Change Obama Doesn’t Support: Fixing Education
The Wall Street Journal just released an editorial discussing McCain and Obama’s approaches to fixing the education system in the United States. One of the things that I found interesting was that Obama’s daughters do not attend a Chicago public school, but instead go to the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, which range from $15,528 a year for kindergarten and $20,445 a year for high school.
Now, what bothers me about this isn’t that Obama spends more money than many of his supporters earn in a year to send his children to private schools. It is certainly his right to do so. What bothers me is his continued opposition to what he told the American Federation of Teachers was the “tired rhetoric of vouchers and school choice.
In other words, Obama thinks it is fine for his kids to go to private schools. For parents that can’t afford to spent tens of thousands of dollars a year, though—too bad, their kids are stuck in failing and often unsafe public schools.
This is blatant hypocrisy, and just goes to show how much of an elitist Barack Obama really is.
Tags: education, election 08, Hypocrisy, Obama