The thing about Lee Snodgrass's now deleted Tweet about how parents shouldn't have a say in their child's education unless they pay to send their kids to private schools is that, in my experience, that's a common view. It's so common that I'm surprised that she felt compelled to delete the tweet. Almost every discussion I've had about education policy has been flooded with people saying the same thing.
Regardless of the intentions of each individual who holds this belief, and I do actually think that there usually are bad intentions when it comes to this specific belief, the result is clear -- schools turn into training grounds for leftists.
It's hard to imagine many well intentioned people who are also aware of the issue who are passionately fighting for a system that keeps anybody but the very wealthy in a failing system rampant in abuse which is becoming more and more restrictive of the rights of taxpayers to raise concerns. I'm sure they exist; but, they're few and far between.
Still, we have to talk about the fact that most of the people who are on Snodgrass's side of the debate are on the left. So, they're supposed to be the same people who want to fight inequality and inequity and champion for the poor. Corey DeAngelis manages to remind me every day of the week that most of the people who are vocal about opposing school choice send their own kids to private schools and many of them attended private schools themselves. Still, even the leftists who aren't rich and aren't sending their kids to private schools are being hypocritical by supporting policies that not only create inequality in schooling, but exacerbates the inequality. Who can afford to pay for school for their kids and for other people's kids? They're arguing of a system that only allows choice for the rich.
Usually, it seems that when people blatantly violate their own values, it's because they notice a way to push an agenda. It seems like it's a good way to breed future leftist voters: make it illegal to not send your kids to school, make the alternative options to the one that your providing so expensive that most people can't afford them (or, if you're Ana Kasparian, ban the alternatives), shut the parents out of the board meetings and get the president to label the parents as domestic terrorists, and keep the kids spending their days making privilege charts in math class (yes, that's happening in some districts).