This is my first dance with the current Chicago Teacher’s Union president. Stacy Davis Gates sent her son to a private Catholic School. When challenged on that choice, she blamed the lack of school choice, which is racist. School choice is racist, not the lack of it.
And what a fine example of Liberal privilege this is.
“School choice was actually the choice of racists. It was created to avoid integrating schools with Black children. Now it’s the civil rights struggle of our generation?” she wrote on X last year.
Does that make Stacy Davis Gates a racist? No, she is a victim. Of what?
Davis Gates criticized school choice, blaming such policies for the lack of resources at Chicago’s public schools.
“It was a very difficult decision for us because there is not a lot to offer black youth who are entering high school” in Chicago, Davis Gates told WBEZ.
“In many of our schools on the South Side and the West Side, the course offerings are very marginal and limited,” she said. “Then the other thing, and it was a very strong priority, was his ability to participate in co-curricular and extracurricular activities, which quite frankly, don’t exist in many of the schools, high schools in particular.”
I can only guess at her proposed solution. More money for public schools?
The 2022 Chicago city school budget was 9.5 Billion dollars. Thirty-three countries on the planet have GDPs less than the proposed Chicago city school budget. A sum that has grown consistently while test scores (racist), grades (racist), and overall performance and activities have declined.
In other words, money is not the solution, as proven by Ms. Davis Gates. If you want your child to have access to the best, you need more school choice, not less.
But Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union, executive vice president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, Vice President of the American Federation for Teachers, … And a hypocrite. When it comes to her kids, it is important to have options. When it comes to yours, especially those financially disadvantages by decades of Democrat rule and lousy public schools, not so much.
