President Barack Obama trotted over to Australia this week and while visiting a school, unloaded about American schools. About how schools are failing children, poor children in particular, and when they are young so that when they do reach elementary school, they are "already behind."
This catharsis is rather peculiar. It is true, but it is peculiar. It is what we conservatives have been saying for years. Going overseas and saying it to folks who will compete with our future generations for jobs is not the wisest of ideas. Time and place, Mr. President.
Fact is, the solution what liberals and conservatives disagree on. Liberals foolishly want to simply to throw more good taxpayer money after bad to their teacher union buddies. That has been going on for years and it has been getting progressively worse, not better.
There is no link between the amount of money spent per pupil and educational attainment. If that were the case, then the DC Public school system would be Cambridge instead of the educational wasteland that it is.
Charter schools and school choice vouchers have worked wherever they have been tried. And if those schools haven't worked, they have gone away. These non-performing public union bureacracy schools have stayed with us to the detriment of generations of uneducated, poorly prepared, close to functionally illiterate children.
But what does the President care? He was financially able to exercise his choice for his own children to the tune of $30,000 a year.