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Anti-school choice activist, Piper for Missouri, gets a long overdue education from Twitter

Failed Democrat candidate for State Representative, Piper for Missouri (Jessica Piper), launched a Twitter attack on school choice activist, Corey DeAngelis. As is often the case from those who oppose school choice, Piper was heavy on accusations and light on substance.

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Disclaimer: This editor sends his children to a private school where the majority of the students are funded through the state’s school choice voucher system. Our children do not qualify for the voucher. Most students in this rural community would not be able to afford this option without the voucher program. The program funds up to $7,500 per child, while the state’s public school students receive over $13,000 in funding per student.

Piper for Missouri started what turned into a days-long screed by calling DeAngelis a ‘paid actor’. Corey DeAngelis has a PhD in education policy and is no more a ‘paid actor’ than any other individual whose life’s work focuses on advocating for policy they believe in.

She goes on to call him a ‘highly paid grifter’, implying DeAngelis is just in it for the money. We would note that Piper makes these charges as a career public school teacher who advocates for sending more taxpayer dollars to public schools.

Note that Piper did not offer some grand refute of DeAngelis’s school choice positions. Instead, she invited Missourians to plug their ears and not listen to him.

As tends to happen on Twitter, Piper got the attention she ordered.

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It’s tempting to be infuriated at the ignorance and inability to argue her position, but we have to laugh.

According to Piper for Missouri, these are just ‘rabid right wing nuts who hate teachers and schools’. Just … wow. At least try to offer an argument. LOL.

This is a typical Twitter story arc:

  1. Liberal goes scorched earth on some person.
  2. Twitter calls them out.
  3. Liberal accuses opposition of being hateful, fascists, and all other manner of evil.
  4. Liberal is now the victim.

Let’s watch it play out, shall we?

Here comes the loyal opposition.

Allow us to help, sir. Money. It’s all about the money.

Public school unions, administrators, and teachers believe that education tax dollars are allocated to them, not to students.

This is the ‘opposition calls out the liberal’ phase of our story, if you’re keeping track.

Spot on.

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It’s starting to look like a lot of people agree with DeAngelis more than Piper.

Ah, that’s better! Foo makes a good referee. LOL.

Straight talk from Anna. We love Anna.

And, just like that, we’ve moved into the ad hominem ‘my opponents are fascists’ phase.

She’s already winking at the ‘victim’ phase because she’s just a ‘rural woman’. No, rural women are tough as nails. That’s not gonna fly. Sorry, Piper, you threw your hat in the ring, slandered your opponents, and ran for statewide office on these issues. You don’t get to play innocent bystander now that people are taking apart your bad tweets. LOL.

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DeAngelis did feature replies to Piper for Missouri in his own Twitter timeline. Why wouldn’t he? This is a very typical approach of the anti-school choice crowd. Piper is doing a service by providing DeAngelis fuel to demonstrate the lack of depth of her arguments.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Bingo! Nobody is forced to leave public schools. That’s why it’s called ‘school choice’. Parents would only make that choice if there was a better option for their kids.

Piper and company would deny that choice to parents, in service of the powerful teachers unions. To quote Piper for Missouri: ‘Bootlickers’.

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She does. She also realizes her schools often lose that competition.

LOLOLOL!

‘Fascists’. It’s like their safe word.

There seems to be only one side here dedicated to forcing parents and students into a government-sanctioned choice.

Hint: It’s not the school choice crowd.

This isn’t going well for Piper.

Ouch. How about it, Piper?

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Yep, you guessed it! It’s time for the ‘I’m the victim here’ phase.

Tale as old as time. LOL.

The ‘certain subset of men’ has some unexpected members. Just sayin’.

Who would have guessed that women are big advocates of school choice? (Everyone, that’s who.)

Piper’s running out of accusations. It had to get weird.

Now we’re getting to the root of the problem that Piper wants to ignore, or thinks can be solved by throwing more money at it: parents are not satisfied with the results they’re getting from public schools.

Bwahaha!

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We’re pretty sure you’re not that popular, ma’am.

Confirmed. LOL.

Thankfully, Missouri was not for Piper.

 

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