Private school for me but not for thee
The battle over school choice — in other words, the battle over the obvious right of parents to choose where their children go to school — has been raging across the country, gaining momentum as state after state joins the fight for what is nothing less than educational freedom.
Idaho enacted a school choice bill just days ago,
by President Donald Trump as a way to ““empower parents to provide the very best education for their child.” Tennessee’s legislature passed the Education of Freedom Act of 2025 a few weeks ago, and now school choice legislation continues to move forward at a rapid pace in Texas, and it looks like Governor Greg Abbott will soon enact a $1 billion school voucher program into law, which would be a massive victory for the school choice movement.
As
put it, “If Texas embraces vouchers after decades of failed attempts, it would mark the biggest victory yet for the school choice movement that has flexed its vast lobbying influence across states in pursuit of rewriting how American children are taught. And it would mark a staggering turnaround — one largely compelled by Abbott — compared to 2023, when a similar proposal repeatedly failed to score enough support from Republicans.”
What’s behind this 180-degree shift? Of course, much of this success is thanks to parents who are increasingly engaged on the political stage. But then there’s another factor here, a factor that was on full display among the left-leaning virtue-signaling activists masquerading as Democratic Party members during Trump’s address: Democrats keep saying the quiet part out loud.
Of course, the idea that parents — not the government — should be able to choose where their children go to school is an obvious one, and if opponents of this policy were smart, they’d focus on their own mistakes in order to convince parents to put their trust back into public school systems that have failed for decades.
But…they’re not smart.
Take Texas State Representative James Talarico, who seems like a Texas beta version of Pete Buttigieg. What strategy is he going with? School choice is a billionaire-run scam!
This is the same Rep. Talarico that, according to Corey DeAngelis, is employed by Maya Consulting, a self-professed “team of consultants who support school districts” who were paid over $1.5 million. Because nothing says “scam” like opposing a policy that threatens you financially, right?
And his other arguments are just...yeah, wrong.
All while the Chair of the Texas House Democrats sends his kids to private school!
This might seem like a “gotcha” — and don’t get me wrong, it’s a helluva gotcha — but it also speaks to the root of the problem. Not only is school choice simply a recognition of parental freedom and equality of opportunity, it rejects the institutional lie that public schools are good because they’re run by the state.
Elites in the Democratic Party think public school is amazing…just not for their children. No, their children deserve better than your children. They’re just…worth more. Got it?
Here’s a message to every Democrat who opposes basic educational freedom for every American: If you think public schools are so great and school choice is so bad, why don’t you prove it and send your kids to the same schools you want to dump on our children?
Until then, their “scam” accusations are as worthless as the public school education they refuse to give their own children.