But right behind them are the school administrator associations, the association of school boards, the law firms that do work for the school systems, the accounting firms that work for school systems, the colleges of education who have terribly inbred relationship with both unions and public schools. We don't like something that may cost us our jobs. I fully understand their desire to defend their turf. I am always mystified by people giving any weight whatsoever to their objections, since it's100 percent self interest that they're saying. There's no logic to their opposition.
Parents are the first line of direction for the education of their children.
The United States Supreme Court said that in 1925, in Little Sisters of the Poor versus Oregon, in defending the right to have private education at all in this country. They just didn't get quite to the issue of how can we pay for that. People don't realize that part of that the government is trying to do is to stop all private education. That's what the current battle is all about. . . . I have not withdrawn from the battle at all.