The Tea Party Motive for School Choice: "We think public schools should go away...discriminates against wealthier students."

What’s the next move for voucher advocates? We found out when Gov. Scott Walker tried to go for all the marbles when he planned to open the program up to rich and poor...hell, everyone. He also wanted to get rid of all standardized testing too, so there would be no way to hold private schools accountable to the billions of taxpayer dollars going to them.

It appears the time is right for “disaster capitalism.”

The Independence Hall Tea Party in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania is no longer mincing words. They want to see an end to public education, slowly but surely. 

NJ.com: “We think public schools should go away,’’ says Teri Adams, the head of the Independence Hall Tea Party and a leading advocate of passage of school voucher bills. They should “go away,” she says, because “they are hurting our children.’’ [...] Adams says the current voucher program “discriminates” against wealthier students by providing public subsidies only to inner-city children in allegedly failing schools.

She doesn’t stop there either. Just wait to you try and get help for little Johnny or Susie from a private charity:

“Our ultimate goal is to shut down public schools and have private schools only, eventually returning responsibility for payment to parents and private charities. It’s going to happen piecemeal and not overnight. It took us years to get into this mess and it’s going to take years to get out of it.”

This is the tea party movement. They want to take our country back…to a darker age.

Adams’ group, like Gov. Walker, wanted to extend vouchers to all students, the rich and maybe a few poor. Keep in mind, better off students will wedge out those from failing schools, and the education divide will be massive. Oh, and profitable.

"It’s one of the really big pots of money,’’ says Paul Tractenberg, a Rutgers law professor in Newark. "We spend $630 billion a year on education and many want it for private profits.’’ 

The unsettling thing is this; Green Bay and Racine both opposed vouchers because their communities didn't ask for it.  Yet the Republican authority in our state is forcing it on them anyway, at least Racine, for now...