There was a time in bygone America when calling someone a hypocrite or claiming they were guilty of hypocrisy was equivalent to branding them with a scarlet letter or the mark of Cain.
Today, in an era of opinion polls, trendsetting, and ever-shifting political winds, hypocrisy means little to nothing. Both parties are guilty of this, though it appears Democrats have mastered the craft.
What earns Ms. Gates the hypocrite label is that while denouncing school choice for others, she has exercised it for herself. She has pulled her son from an apparently underperforming neighborhood public school and enrolled him in a private Catholic school that will cost her $16,000 a year, citing a “disinvestment in public schools” on the South Side.
Illinois’ Invest in Kids Program funded 9,000 scholarships last year. There were 31,000 applicants. The same disparity has occurred in the District of Columbia and other places where choice programs and funds are limited. If the state allows the program to die, hopes of a better life for 40,000 Illinois children and their parents will be dashed. There will then be only one option for resurrecting the program, and that is to vote for political leaders who support school choice.
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