Posted on 04/26/2014 5:15:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Le’t work through a few things. Shortly after he became president, Barack Obama killed Washington, DC’s school voucher program. His own Department of Education had concluded that students who received the vouchers benefited from it and improved, but that did not matter a bit. He callously turned a deaf ear to pleas from parents and students who found the vouchers to be an escape from the city’s terrible schools. He sided with the teachers’ unions against those families and their children, even while claiming to be a champion of the oppressed and under-represented. Obama also sided with the unions on charter schools, another escape path for children from terrible public schools in Washington. He only relented under massive pressure three years later, in an election year.
So, Barack Obama’s record on education opened to scenes of him siding with the powerful teachers’ unions against the powerless children our public schools are supposed to exist to educate. Barack Obama stood in the doorways of private schoolhouses, keeping poor children out.
His former chief of staff from those days is now Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago. Emanuel’s ear is made of even thicker tin than Obama’s. Emanuel announced Thursday that he intends to build a selective-enrollment elite public school in one of Chicago’s upscale neighborhoods, and he is naming it after one Barack H. Obama.
Many of Emanuel’s constituents are not amused, according to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Mary Mitchell.
Concerned African-American families on the South and West sides are still so outraged over the mayor’s decision to shutter 50 public schools last year, that “Anybody but Rahm” political campaign has formed to challenge Emanuel’s re-election bid.
And despite emotional pleas from community stakeholders outside of the Chicago Teacher’s Union, the mayor’s handpicked school board moved forward with plans on Wednesday to turn three more public schools over to a private contractor.
Now, Emanuel’s decision to open a selective-enrollment school named for President Barack Obama in an upscale community where roughly 70 percent of the seats will be filled through an admissions process adds insult to injury.
The poor and under-served lose again, just as they lost in Washington when Obama became president. Am I the only one who sees a pattern here?
To borrow from Emanuel’s language when he attacked Chick-fil-A, is favoring the rich over the poor and slapping the president’s name on a school that offends the latter “Chicago values”?
Really ugly isn’t it...
LOL, yep, it will happen.
Well, Obama happens...
Obama is a true student of Alinsky.
Alinsky openly admitted that the poor were nothing more than tools he used for his own gain.
simply revenue for the school and a tax deduction for the parent... 
Ummmm, because he’s an elite with a really dark tan?
It will be a private school for Muslims, right?
“Obama plays the race and class cards but he really has very little use for the poor and blacks otherwise.”
Right on the nose, FRiend. Obama is the biggest, most elitist hypocrites of all time. He tells us we can’t keep heating our homes at 72 degrees, but cranks his up to 76 (even Jimmy Carter wore a sweater when he asked us to conserve), he trumpets public schools but sends his to one of the most expensive private schools in the country, etc.
What I *don’t* get is how and why so many fools continue to believe in this empty suit.
Blacks will always vote for their democrat overseers in Chicago. Rahm and Obama can walk all over them with no consequence.
Can’t wait until Spike Lee notices it’ll be built outside da ‘hood. Naw, he won’t say a thing from his nice mansion in Manhattan.
Ironic, isn't it, when being black is the reason they get elected and/or watched on tv. If they'd been white, the liberals wouldn't have looked twice.
Gun toting drug dealing gang bangers need not apply.
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