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Democrats Launch Renewed Attack on School Choice 89%

By Amy Curtis90%

7/20/2026, 8:30:12 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Right Leaning Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 50.2% saturation with 127 hits. Analysis detected 1,008 faulty-reasoning hits from 253 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 83.1% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,089 of 18,822 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.90% of the article peer group.

The other day, teacher union head Randi Weingarten held a conference for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). 
Weingarten concluded her speech yelling about the 'trajectory of this nation,' which was just code-speak for more leftist indoctrination in our government-run schools. 
But there were more interesting things from the AFT conference, including renewed attacks on school choice. 
And, as always, those attacks come from people who either attended private school themselves, sent their kids to private school, or both. 
First we'll start with Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who attacked President Trump's nationwide school choice program. 
"Buried inside that bill is a tax scheme that makes public funding ... that takes public funding and steers it toward private schools," Moore said. 
Both he and his children attended private schools. 
Moore even filmed an ad touting Maryland government-run schools from his kids' elite private school. 
If mothers choose, the CTU can't indoctrinate them to hate Jews, capitalism, and America. 
Private schools can educate students more effectively and at lower cost than public schools. 
Democrats don't want students, especially minority students, to have opportunities to get a better education because that leads to better economic success down the road, removing a major voting bloc for Democrats. 
Editor's Note: President Trump is fighting to ensure America's kids get the education they deserve. 
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Confirmation Bias
14.6%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
8.7%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
5.5%
Framing Effect
20.9%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
5.9%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
50.2%
Self-Serving Bias
3.2%
Fundamental Attribution Error
24.9%
Actor-Observer Bias
5.9%
In-Group Bias
8.7%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
12.6%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
21.7%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
5.9%
False Dilemma
12.6%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
14.2%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
5.5%
Appeal to Emotion
11.1%
Begging the Question
5.5%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
24.5%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
6.3%
Biased Writer Voice
47.4%
Indoctrination
14.6%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
47.8%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
19.8%

253 words analyzed.

Analysis

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