School’s a Private Matter for Bigwig Leftists

An interesting news item today relates how Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel got very testy with an interviewer when she asked him why he is sending his two children to a private rather than a public school.

I’m not particularly dismayed at Emanuel for resenting the question—New Jersey Governor Christie recently told a radio talk-show caller that it was none of her business where he was sending his kids to school. Rahm can certainly plausibly say the same thing.

But the difference here is that Emanuel is an ultra-leftist who should believe that his children cannot claim privilege and are needed to serve the noble cause of demonstrating his profound belief in the public schools. (As we all know, public schools are under assault by reactionaries and theocrats.)

I know the standard explanation is that a private school is more secure than a public school, therefore presents fewer problems protecting the kids of prominent politicians or officials. It’s not too hard to see what “more secure” means: not very many black students. Even Barack Obama, who is an upper middle-class white liberal in all but pigmentation, knows that the Washington, DC public schools are cesspools where any sort of discipline, whether mental or physical, is in short supply. (I emphatically don’t blame the black kids, who come from a culture mired in self-destructive behavior abetted by 45 years of Democratic Party racism.)

I’m amazed that the left, which I know just despises hypocrisy, doesn’t see how racist officials appear when they choose to privately school their children. Almost as hypocritical, I suppose, as calling for yet more money to be poured down the rat hole of public education even as Cody and Brie are heading off for classes at Almost All-White Academy.