NYU education professor tells parents to send their kids to public school – before being forced to admit she send hers to private schools
- Diane Ravitch was slammed for telling parents to send their kids to public school
- Ravitch has advocated for public education and against school choice
- She was called out after it was revealed she sent her kids to private school
A former New York University professor was slammed by Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ aide after telling parents to send their kids to public school despite sending her own to private.
Diane Ravitch, a former education professor, advocates for public school education. But a recent tweet led Republican political aide Christina Pushaw to dig into Ravitch’s past and reveal she sent both of her sons to private school.
Ravitch was called out on Twitter after pausing her usual bash of school choice tweets to discuss how public schools bring people together.
‘The best choice is your local public school,’ Ravitch wrote.’ It welcomes everyone. It unifies community. It is the glue of democracy.’
Diane Ravitch was slammed for telling parents to send their kids to public school. She was called out after it was revealed she sent her kids to private school
Ravitch has advocated for public education and against school choice
Pushaw, who worked on Governor DeSantis’ reelection campaign responded to Ravitch’s tweet by attaching a grab of the education writer’s biography on her blog that showed her sons went to private school in The Big Apple.
‘Why didn’t you send your sons to your local public school,’ Pushaw questioned. ‘You didn’t want the best for them? So you paid for private school n NYC? Make it make sense.’
To which Ravitch responded: ‘I paid for it. I didn’t ask taxpayers to pay for my private choice.’
Pushaw then questioned the writer’s logic about parents making the ‘best choice’ in determining where to send their kids to school.
‘So what about parents who can’t afford to pay for private school but want to make the best choice for their kids? They don’t deserve the same opportunities as your sons?’
Ravitch didn’t immediately respond to Pushaw – but the Florida aide further commented: ‘Behold, the logic of a liberal. “I paid for my sons to go to private school because it’s the worst choice. It excludes the poors. It un-glues democracy.”‘
Pushaw, who worked on Governor DeSantis’ reelection campaign responded to Ravitch’s tweet by attaching a grab of the education writer’s biography on her blog. The grab showed that Ravitch’s kids went to private school
Ravitch didn’t immediately respond to Pushaw – but the Florida aide further commented on the matter
Ravitch also wrote a series of educational books, including her latest ‘Slaying Goliath’
Ravitch’s blog shows she used to support ‘conservative ideas’ about education, including charter schools, during the 1980s and 1990s when she worked under George H.W. Bush administration as the assistant secretary of education.
Decades later at around 2006, Ravitch’s beliefs shifted when she ‘realized that these policies were not working,’ her blog reads.
Aside from teaching at New York University from 1995 to 2000, she also taught at Colombia University between 1976 and 1981.
Ravitch also wrote a series of educational books, including her latest ‘Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools.’