Former Public Teacher Walz Attacked School Choice: ‘Schemes’ That ‘Leaves Our Teachers In The Short’

Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Tim Walz, a former public school teacher who has called for putting tampons in boys’ bathrooms, has vehemently attacked school choice, calling actions to support such policies “schemes.”

One year ago, in August 2023, Walz traveled to Iowa, where he ripped GOP Governor Kim Reynolds’ school choice program, Alpha News reported.

“Whenever you come up with one of these schemes — and that’s exactly what they are — to transfer wealth to folks on the backs of these students, we already know that we’re going to underfund public schools that are already underfunded,” Walz snapped. “And we know that about 70% of those students that are going to receive those vouchers or whatever they’re calling them are already attending those schools. What we end up doing is subsidizing folks who are already attending private, religious schools, whatever it may be, or homeschooling, and it leaves our teachers in the short.”

“We know these (nonpublic) schools don’t have to take everyone and they’ll send kids back,” Walz claimed, then said there was “no data to support that those students are doing any better, that those schools are achieving any better.”

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“Unlike their public counterparts whose academic scores have returned to that of 30 plus years ago, Catholic schools have not experienced such a decline over the same time period, with student academic performance post-COVID still higher than it was in the 1990s, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trend assessments,” American Experiment, a Minnesota think tank, noted in July 2023.

“Regents examination scores recently obtained by The Jewish Press under a Freedom Of Information Law request. These scores reveal that New York yeshiva students are outperforming their public school peers in the four core subjects of English, math, science, and history – by far. They show, for example, yeshivas earning 19 of the top 20 average private school scores in New York’s English Language Arts exam,” the Jewish Press reported in 2018.

“You don’t want your child or your student to do something, then don’t let them do that, but don’t take away my freedom, don’t take away my child’s freedom,” Walz declared. “Don’t enforce your views on all of us. And let’s be very clear about this. This entire agenda, this entire voucher agenda, is exactly about that, about not wanting to teach that, because I’m sure at these schools we may not hear the whole history of how things are happening. We may hear that it is OK to discriminate against some of our students.”