George Carlin Told Us 20 Years Ago Why Public School Sucks, and How Your Kid Can Survive
By Jeff Reynolds
On a random Wednesday afternoon, God told me to write about George Carlin again. Which is odd, since I’m not a religious type. But the divine nature of the signal is unmistakable. I was in the kitchen, preparing a 7-lb. pork shoulder roast for smoking, listening to my music app, when suddenly a George Carlin clip interrupted the music streaming.
The comic interruption of the music comes mere hours after President Donald Trump declared school choice as the civil rights issue of our time, as part of a larger package of civil rights legislative moves and executive orders.
Coincidence? Hardly.
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Trump, like most Americans, understands how public school sucks. As PJ Media’s Stacey Lennox wrote earlier,
Adding school choice to the election talking points and highlighting the administration’s stalwart advocacy for it gives the campaign the perfect wedge issue and the perfect foil.
For a wedge issue, according to the group Democrats for Education Reform, the party is split along both racial and generational lines about school choice.
George Carlin also grew up in New York City. The coincidences keep piling up.