Why do so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools?

wordpress ^ | August 11, 2012 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

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Why do so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools?

The Washington Times reports:

“Nationwide, public school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to choose private schools for their own children, the study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found. More than 1 in 5 public school teachers said their children attend private schools.”

“In Washington (28 percent), Baltimore (35 percent) and 16 other major cities, the figure is more than 1 in 4. In some cities, nearly half of the children of public school teachers have abandoned public schools.”

“In Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers put their children in private schools; in Cincinnati, 41 percent; Chicago, 39 percent; Rochester, N.Y., 38 percent. The same trends showed up in the San Francisco-Oakland area, where 34 percent of public school teachers chose private schools for their children; 33 percent in New York City and New Jersey suburbs; and 29 percent in Milwaukee and New Orleans.”

Wow! That’s a huge percentage of public school teachers who send their own children to private schools. I wonder why they do that. Let’s see what the education bureaucrats have to say about this. The article continues:

“Michael Pons, spokesman for the National Education Association, the 2.7-million-member public school union, declined a request for comment on the study’s findings. The American Federation of Teachers also declined to comment.”

Of course those bureaucrats have no comment. Can you imagine the CEO of Coco-Cola being caught drinking Pepsi? Or the CEO of Ford being caught driving a Toyota? Or Bill Gates being caught using Linux? Any of those incidents would be hugely embarrassing. So of course the bureaucrats who run the teachers’ unions don’t want to explain why so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools.

The teachers who work in the public schools know a lot about how good or bad those public schools are. So the fact that so many public school teachers send their own children to private schools tells us a lot about how good or bad the public schools are.

Here are three other blog posts that I have written about the quality of U.S. public schools:

The new method of “teaching” math leaves students ignorant and uneducated

We libertarians and conservatives should praise Barack Obama for sending his own children to private schools

People who say U.S. public schools are “underfunded” have no idea what they are talking about

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The average teacher earns more than the average taxpayer in their districts, so they can afford it when the taxpayers can’t.

[Lysander]

i sent mine to private school because i am a pubic school teachure...

[Theodore R.]

Just because many of the popular educators fraternize with private schools doesn’t mean they are closet Republicans!

[Theodore R.]

Just because many of the popular educators fraternize with private schools doesn’t mean they are closet Republicans!

[Paladin2]

Because they get to meet the parents at conferences and know that they want to send their kids to a school where more of the parents care about learning are are willing to make their kids behave.

[Secret Agent Man]

Every public school indoctrinator and administrative person should be required as part of employment conditions to have every single kid of theirs in the public school system they teach in. No exceptions at all.

[oldenuff2no]

The average teacher earns more than the average taxpayer in their districts, so they can afford it when the taxpayers can’t.

Hey numb “nut s”

Teachers are taxpayers too. Your statement is pretty insulting.

[familyop]

Because they’re members of the government-funded, bipartisan political/regulator class, so they can afford to do so.

[familyop]

"Teachers are taxpayers too."

Yep--big, fat debt/revenues in, little droppings of debt/revenues out, like most government employees, pensioners, all.

[UCANSEE2]

Because they don’t want their children around drugs, guns, and rapists.

[Venturer]

Exactly. Because they make so much money they can afford to.

[elcid1970]

Because they are screaming HYPOCRITES!!

“Private schools for me, but not for thee.”

Agree with earlier posting: condition of employment for public school teachers should be that their children WILL attend public schools.

Like, these teachers need to have some skin in the game? Get my drift?

;^)

[A_perfect_lady]

I don't think they do it because they don't approve of their fellow teachers; I think they do it because they don't want their kids mingling with the kids you find in public schools. I teach in LAUSD, and let me tell you... the kids here get away with murder. They do drugs, beat up other kids, hit teachers, vandalize property, destroy materials, bully and curse... it's almost impossible to kick them out. If your kid is in public school in some parts of L.A., those are the kids waiting for him in the stairwell or the bathroom.

If a child has an IEP, (a plan that identifies him as special needs of some sort, often emotional) he pretty much has carte blanche. They can't be kicked out unless they kill someone. It's pretty scary.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Teachers are taxpayers too.

Teachers are union goons first. Everything else is second.

[MasterGunner01]

Because Chicago Public Schools SUCK? That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

[oldenuff2no]

Most teachers make less per hour than the guy who picks up your garbage. Many are totally anti union but regularly pick up the failures of the home teaching crowd. When a child fails, read that parent failure, at home schooling that child is placed back in the public school system and falls off the home school accountability. The first thing the public school has do is test the child to see how far behind they are and instantly they become a failure on the public school books. I know exactly how it works. Some home schooling situations are good but they make the failures go away and are never forced to take credit for them. I've heard all the anti teacher crap here before. It needs to be flushed with the rest of the days excrement.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Spoken like a union goon.