Irony Alert: The Founder of Trump University Is Selling School Choice
Donald Trump is in favor of school choice.
Well of course he is! After all, he made a lot of money scamming poor suckers out of their hard-earned cash with Trump University.
He knows how privatized education benefits the corporations who run the schooland not the poor schmucks who want to learn.
If he gets his way, our national education motto will be caveat emptor.
He is betting the American public is so stupid they’ll give a man caught in a scandalfor cheating people out of an education the power to set all education policy for our nation’s children.
And it’s all right there before the public.
In fact, the parallels between Trump University and school choice policies are apparent to anyone who looks. Here are just a few of the similarities:
1) False advertising
First of all, Trump University was never an actual university!
The New York State Education Department warned administrators when the institution was founded in 2005 that it was operating without a license. So what did the “school” do? It changed its legal name to The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative.
See? We’re not saying it’s a university anymore. I mean we still call it Trump Irony Alert: The Founder of Trump University Is Selling School Choice | gadflyonthewallblog: