A trip to bountiful.
We had lunch at a diner in Bountiful, Utah today on our western road trip. Meanwhile Mark emails me from home:
Fred,
It’s tough to compete with a Wyoming sunset, but I’ll give it a go. Our boy Rahm walked off the set of a WMAQ interview, outraged that a reporter asked why his children didn’t attend Chicago public schools. Video clips of Obama dissing Washington public schools for his girls and that fat clown governor in New Jersey saying it’s no one’s business where his kids go accompanied the piece.
Somehow this montage implied that those jagoffs have a certain amount of validity in their bullying demands for privacy and choice.
This crap, softened by the media, should be the unrelenting focus of all stakeholders in public schools.
How invested in providing quality public education can these folks be if they won’t enroll their children in their local public school?
It’s a staggering disconnect.
Urgency, fairness and quality in public education will not be achieved until our leaders can no longer mitigate their way out of this shared experience.
As you know, I’m a great one for litmus tests for politicians. Here’s yet another. Are your children enrolled in local public schools? Yes or no? Pure and simple. And of they’re not, you are not part of the community you represent.
Instead you are a representative of Chutzpah Nation.
- Mark
Actually, when Christie replied, “It’s none of your business,” the parent involved was asking why the gov was cutting public school funding, while sending his kid to private school.
I heard Rahm take a stand saying he refuses to use his children to serve a political agenda. This is a choice they have to make for their education. Hilarious. That is EXACTLY what he is doing–the agenda is, after all, to de-fund public education and declare it has failed. It’s about choice, remember? The wave of the future.
>Urgency, fairness and quality in public education will not be achieved until our leaders can no longer mitigate their way out of this shared experience.
I’d change that from ‘can no longer’ to ‘no longer want to’.
>Are your children enrolled in local public schools? Yes or no? Pure and simple. And of they’re not, you are not part of the community you represent.
My son is not in public school because of what’s being done to the public schools. If I wanted to run for office, would I have to put him in public school before I tried to work with you all take the schools back for the communities and the kids?
I’d like to hear Obama say that he recognizes the problems with the local schools, and wants to provide them the support they need so that they can become the sort of place his daughters would want to go.
I saw the piece on the local news, and Christie really showed his true colors by being hostile and rude to the woman who posed the question. She wasn’t rude. She asked her question politely, as a constituent has a right to, and did not appear to be attempting to goad the governor. She asked a legitimate question, but Christie went into fight mode. NJ voters, is this really whom you want making crucial decisions about your state, your tax money, your schools?
His kids are out of bounds,off limits ,and none of our business