Why public school teachers put their kids in private alternatives

In For Kids & Country, seasoned educator Larry Sand explains how local public school teachers commonly send their children to private options. If the instructors most intimately involved in traditional education are often too wary to enroll their own kids, what does that mean for the importance of CA’n school choice programs?

It is important to note that many public school teachers who are parents understand that a government-run school may not be in the best interests of their own children. According to a survey released in 2016, Education Next found “no less than 20% of teachers with school age children, but only 13% of non-teachers, have sent one or more of their children to private school.” And not surprisingly, 42% of teachers who don’t send their kids to a traditional public school back vouchers, as compared to only 23% of the teachers who send their children to traditional public schools.

These results are similar to a 2004 Fordham Institute study which looked at 50 American cities and found that 21.5% of urban school teachers send their kids to private schools, while 17.5% of non-teachers do. Digging a little deeper, we learn that the disparity is greater for larger urban areas. In Philadelphia, 44% of public school teachers’ kids attend a private school, in Chicago it’s 39%, San Francisco-Oakland 34%, and New York 33%.

Needless to say, both studies were conducted long before the widespread union-orchestrated social engineering campaign took hold.

This article originally appeared in For Kids & Country. Read the whole thing here.

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