NYU Professor Says Sending Kids to Public School, Before Admitting She Sends Her Children to Private School
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The New York University education professor tells parents to send their children to public school, before being forced to admit that she sent hers to private schools.
- Diane Ravitch was criticized for telling parents to send their children to public school
- Ravitch has advocated for public education and against school choice.
- They called her after it was revealed that she sent her children to a private school.
A former New York University professor came under fire from Assistant Governor Ron DeSantis after telling parents to send their children to public school despite sending their own to private.
Diane Ravitch, a former education teacher, advocates for education in public schools. But a recent tweet prompted Republican political adviser Christina Pushaw to dig into Ravitch’s past and reveal that she sent her two children to private school.
Ravitch came under fire on Twitter after taking a break from her regular school choice tweet party to discuss how public schools bring people together.
“The best option is your local public school,” Ravitch wrote. Welcome everyone. Unify the community. It is the glue of democracy.
Diane Ravitch was criticized for telling parents to send their children to public school. She was called after it was revealed that she sent her children to a private school.
Ravitch has advocated for public education and against school choice.
Pushaw, who worked on Gov. DeSantis’ re-election campaign, responded to Ravitch’s tweet by attaching a screenshot from the educational writer’s biography on her blog that showed her children attended a private school in the Big Apple.
“Why didn’t you send your children to the local public school?” Pushaw questioned. Don’t you want the best for them? So you paid for a private school in New York? Make it make sense.
To which Ravitch replied: ‘I paid for it. I did not ask taxpayers to pay for my private election.
Pushaw then questioned the writer’s logic that parents make the “best choice” in determining where to send their children to school.
‘So what about parents who can’t afford a private school but want to make the best choice for their children? Don’t they deserve the same opportunities as their children?
Ravitch did not immediately respond to Pushaw, but the Florida aide commented: ‘Here’s the logic of a liberal. “I paid for my children to go to a private school because it is the worst option. It excludes the poor. Democracy takes off.”
Pushaw, who worked on Governor DeSantis’ re-election campaign, responded to Ravitch’s tweet by attaching a screenshot of the educational writer’s biography on his blog. The capture showed that Ravitch’s children attended a private school.
Ravitch did not immediately respond to Pushaw, but the Florida aide would comment further on the matter.
Ravitch also wrote a series of educational books, including his latest ‘Slaying Goliath’.
Ravitch’s blog shows that she used to support ‘conservative ideas’ about education, including charter schools, during the 1980s and 1990s, when she worked under the George HW Bush administration as assistant secretary for education.
Decades later, around 2006, Ravitch’s beliefs changed when he “realized that these policies weren’t working,” his blog says.
In addition to teaching at New York University from 1995 to 2000, he also taught at Columbia University from 1976 to 1981.
Ravitch also wrote a number of educational books, including his latest ‘Killing Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools’.