One of the current movements within the country is a growing belief in the idea of school choice. By school choice is meant that education dollars provided by the government should follow the child. This means that if a parent felt that the ABC private school was the best choice for his/her child, the government money would be sent to that school and not to the public school that the child might otherwise attend.
As one might expect, there are those who disagree with the idea of school choice. These disagreements take different forms. Behind much of these disagreements are the ideas that parents should have little or no say in the education of their children.
During the Georgia House Education Subcommittee on Policy hearing Monday, state Rep. Lydia Glaize (D) voiced her concern over such a system.
Georgia Rep. Lydia Glaize (D) says the QUIET PART OUT LOUD: "a lot of those parents did not finish high school.. I am extremely concerned that we would put money in their hands and that entire piece of life in the hands of parents who are not qualified to make those decisions" pic.twitter.com/z5Z7ktA0JY
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) March 20, 2023
“I see access as a problem. I see parents being able to direct their child’s education and they’re already in the lower 25 percentile, meaning a lot of those parents did not finish high school…could not finish their own education. I am extremely concerned that we would put money in their hands and that entire piece of life in the hands of parents who are not qualified to make those decisions, and they don’t have the money to put in the difference that their child would need to attend a private school.”
How did the children of this country ever get educated in the past before the rise of “experts?” This representative is saying that parents should not have a say in the education of their children. In blunt words, she is saying that lower income parents are too dumb to know what is best for their children.
This is typical for a Democrat. The public is dumb and needs government experts to tell them what they are allowed to do. If parents find out that no children are reading at grade level in the school that their children go to, they should not be allowed to make a change to a different school.
This is scary stuff coming from someone who took an oath to defend the rights of all people in this country. Of course, Democrats look on such oaths with the same disdain that they do our Constitution and Bill of rights.