by Brett Healy Sigh.
Look what happened when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker dared to go to a successful inner city school to read to a group of young kids.
The event was a perfect storm for the unhinged Left: A chance to combine their absolute hatred of the Republican governor with their complete disdain for the nation’s longest running school choice program.
SEIU, AFSCME and Milwaukee Public School officials combined forces with Students for a Democratic Society, self-professed Hippies and others to march, sing, chant and yell at not only the governor, but the students and staff of Messmer Preparatory School.
The Messmer story is inspiring, and one I’ll tell in greater detail here soon. What’s really striking to me is this obnoxious display of thuggery comes onthe heels of the release of the MacIver Educational Choice Census, which shows that throughout Wisconsin, parents are embracing educational options. In Milwaukee, nearly 4 out of 5 children attend a school other than the one geographically assigned to them by the public school bureaucrats.
The Left and the perpetually offended, who despite spending millions of dollars in national money have been losers now in several consecutive elections and policy debates in Wisconsin, must resort to civil disturbances, vandalism and thuggery. Their well of vitriol has no bottom, apparently.
Contrast them with the kids at Messmer. These students come from the same abject poverty, single parent-dominated households and unsafe neighborhoods as their peers in the Milwaukee Public School System. Yet, they are eager to learn, polite, inquisitive and successful.
Qualities in which the protesters are severely lacking.
Big Government
