Bill Ayers, the one-time domestic terrorist who, along with his colleagues in the Weather Underground, bombed government buildings, now wants us to believe the government is the answer to all our problems.
I suppose that’s what happens when your friend becomes President of the United States.
Ayers recently appeared in New Jersey and was questioned by a pro-charter school activist. She wanted to know why Ayers opposed alternatives to traditional public schools, particularly for poor kids who can’t afford private school tuition, and what he would do to offer children a better education.
Ayers solution? Government-run schools – and more money for them. Ayers despises private companies being involved in the education of children. Who cares if kids receive a better education from a corporation? Apparently he sleeps better knowing some kids are sentenced to violence and a poor learning environment in many assembly-line, government-run schools. As long as it’s government-run, with labor unions calling the shots, that’s good enough for Ayers.
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This man purports to care about education? He seems to be more interested in defending a bankrupt, discredited ideology than pursuing reforms that actually help children.
Ayers is an educated man. He must see through the union-produced rhetoric he spews. Many charter schools – a lot of them publicly funded, mind you – do better than their traditional counterparts. Some do not. But those that don’t can – and should – be closed. Try closing a union-dominated traditional government school in his home city of Chicago.
Ideologues like Ayers now want the government they once despised to have the power to tell us how to run our lives, what schools to attend and what to learn. It takes courageous people, like the New Jersey activist mentioned above, to press them for answers and expose them for the frauds they truly are.
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