Vol. 33, No. 06
March 20, 2017
Leftist Conniptions Against School Choice
Item: An article for the Washington Post’s “Outlook” section on February 12, 2017, was written by one Elizabeth Wade, a Virginian from Richmond who acknowledged that she was not “political,” and did not recall voting at any level ever, “except in presidential elections.” The largest daily publication in the nation’s capital gave her a prominent position in the Sunday paper to express her opposition to (then) newly confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
The writer said that, through research, she had “learned [DeVos] is a billionaire who contributes a lot of money to the Republican Party. I learned she has never been in public schools, not as a student, a parent, an educator or an administrator. There was nothing in her biography that suggested to me she had anything to contribute to the millions of public school children and teachers who would be under her leadership.”
Now, the writer said, she and her family and friends talk politics “all the time.” Wrote Wade, “Most of my girlfriends have transformed along with me.... Now half of our texts or phone calls are about Trump and DeVos.”
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