Thursday, June 10, 2010
Politicians - "Governor Christie slams public teacher unions"
I hope Governor Christie is successful in New Jersey, because, if he is, it will open the door for more "telling it like it is", which I think is a good thing...
At AmericanThinker.com, Greg Halvorson writes about these recent comments:
"Parents and children who are being failed by a public school system whose costs are exorbitant and whose results are insulting deserve a choice. We don't have to look far around the country to know that vouchers and experiments in school choice are working, that they're producing results.
In D.C., those in that program are now reading 19 months ahead of their peers outside of the program. This isn't a coincidence, we know it's not a coincidence. We know that there's over five-million children trapped in over ten-thousand failing public schools around America.
And I use the word ‘trapped' and I use it directly. They are trapped by an educational bureaucracy, they are trapped by a selfish, self-interested, greedy school union that cares more about putting money in their own pocket, and the pockets of members, than they care about educating our most vulnerable and needy children."
