AOC opposes school choice but got her goddaughter into charter school

AOC wearing her "See, I'm not stupid" eyeglasses

Don't you just hate it when someone says to you: "Do as I say, not as I do"? It's infuriating.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos verbally obliterated socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over AOC's [aka "I Can Cook, Cha-Cha-Cha;" aka Alexandria Occasionally-Comatose] obvious hypocrisy. The socialist from the Bronx is a staunch critic of school choice but it was uncovered that she got her goddaughter into a charter school.

“This area’s like a lot of where my family is from,” the socialist said in a Facebook Live video in 2017, before she became a public figure. “My goddaughter, I got her into a charter school, like, maybe a block or two down.”

Like maybe, yah, what.

“Embracing charters would be a big no-no for Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic socialist base, which calls for the total abolition of charters, arguing that their existence hurts traditional public schools,” The New York Post reported. “Though Ocasio-Cortez has frequently talked about how her own family fled the Bronx to avoid the borough’s failing public schools, she has also publicly stood in total lockstep with anti-charter advocates.”

Her philosophy is: "if that's like where they live, they should go to school there and, like, forget about it." Her definition of "they" is everyone not in her family or friends circle.

DeVos responded to The Post’s report by exposing AOC's hypocrisy, tweeting:

 How nice that @AOC claims to have helped her goddaughter get into a public charter school. It’s a shame she works to deny that opportunity to every other disadvantaged family in America. “Good for me, but not for thee,” indeed. #EducationFreedomhttps://t.co/a2RhOEeU0o
— Secretary Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVosED)

Ray Domanico, director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute, blasted the lipsticked loonbag for her hypocrisy.

“I am not surprised by the hypocrisy,” Domanico told The Post. “Charter schools are incredibly popular with the communities and populations that a lot of these Democratic politicians claim to be representing … People in the Bronx can find a good school for their young ones now as the congresswoman apparently did for her goddaughter.”

I once worked at a charter school in New York City's Spanish Harlem, so I speak with a little experience.

These schools are often better than public schools because teachers are held accountable for their performance and can be terminated from employment if they are not performing well. Public schools are unionized and it's practically impossible for them to be terminated short of committing a serious criminal act.

What's really troubling is how the left-leaning media refuses to expose the hypocrisy of their fell leftists.


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Another woman for Cabinet post--liberals confused

Washington D.C. -- President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen Betsy DeVos, 58, to become education secretary. She is a charter school advocate and GOP donor from Michigan.

Liberals tend to dislike charter schools, not because they more often score higher academically than public schools in the inner cities, but because they are not unionized and under-performing teachers are held accountable. Yet while they were all ready to jump on Trump's picks, they're at a "Betsy loss" for words, believing that he would select an all white male Cabinet.

DeVos is Trump's second woman to fill a spot in his Cabinet. Earlier Wednesday he named SC governor Nikki Haley as our US ambassador to the United Nations, a position currently held by uber leftist Semantha Power.

Both DeVos and Haley will need Senate confirmation.

Trump describes DeVos as "a brilliant and passionate education advocate," and is known for supporting charter schools and vouchers. Liberals hate the idea of school choice for families and would rather keep kids from urban ghettos in their ghetto schools where there are significantly lower expectations.

The one issue that DeVos stands for is the Common Core standards that Trump rallied against in his campaign, but with Trump as POTUS, it's a non-issue.

Ms. DeVos is a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman. Her husband, Dick, is an heir to the Amway fortune and a former company president. He could make you rich if you bought into the company.



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De Blasio, the Socialist Sellout

Socialist and New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has rescinded on an agreement for the city to share space with four public charter schools. Harlem Success 4 is one of these schools and the move screws over educators and about 700 students and their parents. Eva Moskowitz is the CEO of the Success Academy Network and calls this decision "the saddest day in Success Academy history." Ms. Moskowitz is a former councilwoman and is de Blasio's political adversary.

Instead of honoring Mayor Bloomberg's decision to work with these schools, de Blasio pulled "an Obama," and exacted retribution from his enemy. Seventeen schools were promised free space in public school buildings last October, but not anymore. Good job Billy; you kissed up to the United Federation of Teachers better than most, and they supported you completely.

Charter schools have historically outperformed traditional public schools, especially in reading and math, two subjects de Blasio evidently never studied.

 But you've always hated charter schools because they couldn't do anything for you politically; they could only help kids academically. The Harlem Success 4 charter school is a perfect example of that, with an amazing success rate by kids who otherwise were at risk.

Amy Moskowitz

Although charter schools receive taxpayer funding for operating expenses, they are managed privately and do not get funded to build or lease their facilities. De Blasio couldn't care less.

"Explaining to students and families that they won't have a school next year is the most heartbreaking thing I've done at Success Academies," Moskowitz said in a statement. "No parent should have to go through this."

Andrew Campanella, president of National School Choice Week said, "This extreme action puts de Blasio, a progressive Democrat, at odds with not only President Obama, but most charter-supporting mayors and governors across the country."

Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, called de Blasio's decision, "outrageous." I call it cruel, uncaring, and distinctly progressive Democratic.

You can look for the union label for all of de Blasio's decisions.

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