Corey DeAngelis: The School Choice Wave Sweeping America

The Parent Revolution author on lockdowns, teachers unions, and voter rage.

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This week's guest on The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie is school choice activist Corey DeAngelis, whose provocative new book is The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools. A senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and a former education policy analyst at the Reason Foundation (the nonprofit that publishes Reason magazine), Corey has been called "the most effective school choice advocate since Milton Friedman."

His new book explains why K-12 education failed so badly before and during the COVID pandemic and how to fix it once and for all by making the needs of parents and students the central concern of schooling.

Previous appearances:

• "Watch Elizabeth Warren Lie About Her Son's Private School Education," by Nick Gillespie and John Osterhoudt. January 29, 2020
• "Corey DeAngelis: COVID-19 Is Super-Spreading School Choice," by Nick Gillespie. October 7, 2020
• "Thanks to Teachers Unions, Families are Fleeing Traditional Public Schools," by Nick Gillespie and Corey DeAngelis. January 29, 2021
• "Corey DeAngelis: 2021 Was 'the Year of School Choice,' But 2022 Will Be Even Better," by Nick Gillespie. January 26, 2022
• "Corey DeAngelis: How COVID Has Changed the Face of Education Forever," by Nick Gillespie. September 26, 2022
• "Why Do Public Schools Suck and What Should We Do About Them? Live With Corey DeAngelis and Connor Boyack," by Nick Gillespie. April 19, 2023

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Comments

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Choice? That is only for uterus-owners and gender (and paying back student loans).

No choice for schools, speech, and taxes. Especially taxes.

[Uncle Jay]

What?
Parents demanding a choice between the failed, expensive and inept public school system?
This has to stop immediately.
I mean, what will these parents demand next?
Private ownership of guns?

[Rick James]

"School choice is winning"

Not if the FBI has anything to say.

[I, Woodchipper]

All you need to know is the people who hate school choice with a passion. They are the worst people with the worst intentions imaginable.

[Sequel]

The corporate news media have completely failed to notice that for the last 40 years, parent groups have been rising up against local school districts’ dictation of which school a pupil must attend.

The change corresponded with the rise of massive state and federal funding of programs to force selected local schools to become the repository of bussed-in students from poor school districts. The destruction of one local school thus became the prerequisite for the municipality to receive funding to protect it from the evil necessity of raising local taxes.

It also enabled municipal real estate interests to further their goals of gentrifying lower-value real estate by purging lower-income townies.

[TJJ2000]

The Nazi-Indoctrination camps are failing!?!?!
That's some darn good news....

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

So again for maybe the 100th time: why is this happening ? What did people find out?

WHERE do teachers send thier kids?
Nationally, more than 20% of public school teachers with school-age children enroll them in private schools, or almost twice the 11% rate for the general public. Philadelphia Public School Teachers: 44% enroll their own children in private schools, or four times the national average.

WHERE do politicians send their kids?
40 percent of members of the House and 49 percent of members of the Senate send or have sent at least one of their children to a private school.

This is not so much a reaction against public schools, it is the shrieking at hypocrisy. YOU can do whatever you want even if you teach in public schools or you make laws about education, BUT I have to support what you do to my kids that you don't do to your own kids .