Showing posts with label Social Injustice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Injustice. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Obamas Don't Need School Vouchers

But, if you are living in a terrible public school district, as many Americans are, you may need vouchers so your kids can hope to get out of poverty. Today's N.Y. Times announces that the Obama's have chosen the cream of the elite schools in the D.C. area for their two young daughters at a price tag of over $29,000 per year. Here is the link. It's blatant social injustice to want what's best for your own kids but to refuse school vouchers to other kids. It's also rank hypocrisy: the change that wasn't. The elitism that always is.