{"id":12958,"date":"2012-02-08T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12958"},"modified":"2012-02-08T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:00:14","slug":"nj-teacher-union-boss-making-300k-tells-poor-%e2%80%98life%e2%80%99s-not-fair%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12958\/nj-teacher-union-boss-making-300k-tells-poor-%e2%80%98life%e2%80%99s-not-fair%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Teacher Union Boss Making $300k Tells Poor \u2018Life\u2019s Not Fair\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all due respect to the job New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is doing, perhaps his popularity in haranguing the excesses of liberal spending is made easier by Dickensian villains like Vincent Giordano<\/a>.\u00a0 Giordano, the Director of the New Jersey Education Association (i.e. teacher\u2019s union), had this exchange with a news anchor over the injustice of denying poor families vouchers to escape failing schools.<\/p>\n

During the interview, he was challenged by the host on why low-income families should not have the same options as other families when their child is in a failing school.<\/p>\n

“Those parents should have exactly the same options and they do. We don’t say that you can’t take your kid out of the public school. We would argue not and we would say ‘let’s work more closely and more harmoniously,'” Giordano said.<\/p>\n

When told some families cannot afford to finance the shift to private school without government help, Giordano said: “Well, you know, life’s not always fair and I’m sorry about that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In full damage-control mode, Giordano\u2019s union tried to spin his comments away from the obvious implication that poor families should stop whining and accept overfunded, underperforming schools so that people like Giordano can make a hefty paycheck (his topping $300k a year).\u00a0 But even the spin doctors failed to explain how vouchers \u201ctake resources away from disadvantaged public schools and only exacerbate the challenges faced by students in those communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the people \u2013 not institutions \u2013 that are disadvantaged.\u00a0 If the NJEA can\u2019t be bothered to reform its work practices, then every student deserves a ticket away from it.<\/p>\n

H\/T: Fox News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all due respect to the job New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is doing, perhaps his popularity in haranguing the excesses of liberal spending is made easier by Dickensian villains like Vincent Giordano.\u00a0 Giordano, the Director of the New Jersey Education Association (i.e. teacher\u2019s union), had this exchange with a news anchor over the injustice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1034,410,1801,1051,1539],"class_list":["post-12958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-chris-christie","tag-new-jersey","tag-teacher","tag-union","tag-voucher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12958"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12964,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions\/12964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}