Chicago Teachers Union President Defends Sending Son To Private School After Backlash

[PeteS in CA]

Chicago Teachers Union President Defends Sending Son To Private School After Backlash

https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-president-defends-sending-son-to-private-school-after-backlash

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is defending her decision to send her son to a private school after facing backlash for the decision.

CTU President Stacy Davis Gates is sending her freshman son to a Catholic school on the South Side of Chicago.

In her defense of the decision, Davis Gates criticized school choice, blaming such policies for the lack of resources at Chicago’s public schools.

“It was a very difficult decision for us because there is not a lot to offer black youth who are entering high school” in Chicago, Davis Gates told WBEZ.

Is Gates intelligent and self-aware enough to realize that she is hypocritically railing and acting against what she and her union helped create?

[Kamaji]

Incredible:  Chicago Teachers Union Boss Accidentally Champions School Choice

Guy Benson
September 11, 2023

Last week, we mentioned rumors and reports circulating out of Chicago that the president of the city's teachers union sends one of her own children to private school.  Stacy Davis-Gates has called school choice advocates bigots and fascists.  She's referred to private schools as 'segregation academies,' stating specifically that school choice is "the choice of racists."  It's also, awkwardly, her choice -- as she now admits that her family has chosen to send her son to a $15,000-per-year private school.  It seems she's actually a fan of certain "segregation academies," under specific and self-interested conditions.  What's truly incredible is the letter to unions members she has released justifying this decision, framing the charges of hypocrisy as "recent online attacks against my family and our union."  She's playing both the victimhood and race cards, of course.  Some key passages:

"Sadly [the role of crafting educational policy] has been left to millionaires, billionaires and those living outside our neighborhoods, city and state. These violent forces want to skip over the realities of racism and discrimination in educational institutions and propose a "choice" agenda that ignores this context. They want to ban books and diversity inclusion while ignoring the disproportionate suspensions, expulsions and criminalization of Black boys. Here is the truth: If you are a Black family living in a Black community, high-quality neighborhood schools have been the dream, not the reality. Unlike some white counterparts on the North Side or in the suburbs, we aren't blessed with quality options blocks away from our home, neatly placed near a grocery store, doctor's office or a safe public park. Our schools are usually stranded in food and healthcare deserts.

Our critics want you to believe that "school choice" is a black-and-white issue that lacks nuance and hard choices for people like us, Black families-especially when you are parenting a Black boy in America. For my husband and me, it forced us to send our son, after years of attending a public school, to a private high school so he could live out his dream of being a soccer player while also having a curriculum that can meet his social and emotional needs, even as his two sisters remain in Chicago Public Schools. In Chicago, we have repeatedly witnessed the same school-choice operators who want to call me a hypocrite take action to shortchange students, engage in fraudulent practices and provide substandard services to Black and Brown families..."

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Source:  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/09/11/teachers-union-boss-accidentally-endorses-school-choice-n2628208