(Guest post by Greg Forster)
Remember the hoopla a few weeks back about the MSNBC promo that told us our children aren’t really ours? Well, in case you were wondering whose they were, the president of the Louisiana teachers’ union spells it out for you:
There isn’t anything fair about using something like [school choice] only against the public schools and then taking our children from us, and sending us where we don’t know what they’re getting. [ea]
Mocking her is left as an exercise for the reader.
I’m starting to get worried. The unions are still powerful because they have money and troops, but they’re now totally humiliated and publicly shamed for their evil, and they’re clearly lost and bewildered in a new social world where the rules of legitimacy have all changed and they can’t make sense of anything. At what point is it just cruel to go on pointing out their depravity?
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Answer: not yet. Not by a longshot 🙂
Good! Whew, that’s a relief. You will tell me when it’s time to stop, right? Right?
It’ll become cruel at the point when they’ve lost. Not before.
I guess that’s my point; they’re so discredited, it feels to me like their loss is only a matter of time at this point. 🙂
Discredited? Yes. Dead? Not by a long shot. They have clearly lost the battle of ideas, but are still very much in the game.
Yup.
And mockery, as satisfying as it may be, isn’t particularly relevant to the politics of public education. The adult equivalent of calling Randi Weingarten a poopie-head isn’t going to sway too many legislators to vote against her.
If it’s change you’re after then swaying legislators to your view is the appropriate route and us “reformy” types have some compelling facts on our side but if they aren’t hammered home relentlessly they’ll seep out into the public mind at their own pace with the Randi Weingartens of the world fighting the promise and understanding of change every step of the way.
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