This is an interesting
article. She considers herself a "limousine liberal" who's a hypocrite for sending her kid to a private school. She pins it all on "funding." If only politicians would tax people harder and fund schools more . . .
(Side note - the funding excuse is almost surely ********. She says she lives on the East Coast. That almost surely means that she lives in a blue city with schools that have tons of money but just suck anyway since money has little to do with a school's performance. But we'll ignore this for now.)
After hemming and hawing for awhile, she finally comes out and says it.
"I’m not willing to risk my child’s future in an unreliable system – where,
even before the COVID-19 pandemic, students are
far below their appropriate grade level – merely to prove my progressive credibility when my career and philanthropy already do that."
Put aside the obnoxious delusions of grandeur for a moment, and put aside the underfunded delusion as well. She and other liberals who do this really don't understand what makes them hypocrites. One can put their kids in private schools and also be supportive of public schools. There is nothing wrong or hypocritical about that. In fact, it's honorable.
What makes her and so many like her hypocrites is that they aren't willing to risk their own child's future
but think other parents should have to risk their own child's future. It's the denial to other kids the privilege that her own kid gets - especially when people like her righteously proclaim that they think privileges of various types should be torn down and nullified. That's what makes her a hypocrite and what should make her feel guilty.
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