America, Meet @GovChristie: Teacher Bashing Hypocrite
The Reading Zone points us to a video of Chris Christie out on the campaign trail doing what he does best: bashing teachers.
Q: Which do you regard as a bigger threat to the nation: ISIS, or our K-12 education system.
CHRISTIE: (Laughs) Both.
America, meet Chris Christie: a man who will merrily compare public schools to terrorist groups.
We Jersey folks have become used to this: after all, Christie has compared teachers to drug dealers, told students their teachers don't care about their learning, and excoriated teachers for using pronouns to describe their students. No, I am not making this up.
There are three reasons Christie engages in the juvenile, unpresidential behavior. First, he has a personal beef with the New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teacher union. The NJEA has not backed down to his bullying, and that pisses him off to no end.
Second, Christie needs a scapegoat for his many, many failures as governor. He has a terrible job creation record, a terrible tax record, a terrible record of management, a terrible environmental record, a terrible public health record, and a terrible disaster recovery record. Plus Bridgegate. And the ARC tunnel. And our tanking credit rating. And housing. And his personal greed....
Chris Christie's record is quite clear: he is a truly horrible governor. I'll admit - See more at: http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2015/06/america-meet-govchristie-teacher-basing.html
