To the Editor:

I was listening to one of our local college radio stations the other day while driving to work. As it was a Saturday morning, it wasn’t playing the music I'd hoped for. It replayed an interview between a local talk-show host and some bureaucrat shilling for public schools (commonly referred to as an educrat). Not what I needed to hear on my way to try to earn enough money to pay my school taxes but I kept listening.

The educrat was piling on Eva Moskowitz, the very talented and successful champion of New York City charter schools. She attacked Moskowitz for, among many other things, discipline policies at one of her charter schools, Success Academy. 

She compared it to the viral video of a cop in South Carolina who tried to expel a disorderly schoolgirl from a classroom. She tried to associate responsible school discipline with that of a failed school disciplinary incident. 

The problem for this educrat was that the school she tried to hang around Eva Moskowitz’ neck was a public school. Not just any old “underfunded” inner-city ghetto school either. It was an icon of public school fiscal excess — Spring Valley High School of Columbia, South Carolina.

At one point, the moderator of the radio show asked the educrat what sort of real changes she was advocating and her answer was astounding. She said: “…equitable funding” as if we haven’t been spending enough already. Spring Valley, not unlike the public schools of New York, has been on the receiving end of “equitable funding” long enough for it to have worked if the lack of it had ever been the problem.

I had arrived at work by then so I never got the name of this shill for failure. But it doesn’t matter which shill she was — public school apologists are all of the same brainwashed ilk. 

The real “equitable funding” recipients ought to be the charters and other schools of choice.

David Crawmer

North Greenbush