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‘The View’ Co-Hosts Clash Over School Choice: ‘She’s Been Talking For 3 Minutes!’

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ABC’s “The View” co-hosts had another meltdown this week when discussing President-elect Donald Trump’s historic election victory.

During a panel discussion about Trump’s cabinet picks and other nominees, co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin got into a heated debate over school choice while talking about Trump’s pick for education secretary, Linda McMahon.

“When you hear about school choice, it’s really connected to the voucher system,” Hostin said. “The Department of Education is responsible for $18.4 billion that fund high-poverty K-12 schools. Schools where kids are poor. Kids that grew up in neighborhoods like I grew up in the South Bronx projects.”

“And what happens with vouchers? The studies show very clearly that they fund students already attending private schools. So people with money get those vouchers, use the vouchers to pay less for their private schools and their kids go on to do well. Where do you get the money from vouchers? You pull that money from the poor schools,” Hostin said. “Wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school voucher tax credits, I’m not making this up.”

Hostin talked about a study from 2020 that said only half of states with voucher systems required teachers to have a bachelor’s degree, training, and a license to teach.

Griffin asked Hostin where she got the study she was talking about, but Hostin kept talking.

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“That’s just not my experience, if I may get in just to make it a conversation,” Griffin said, as Hostin continued to talk. “I went to public school, I believe you got to go to private school,” Griffin said of Hostin.

After some more back and forth, Hostin tried to make one last point, but co-host Whoopi Goldberg cut her off by saying that no one could understand what was being said and cut to commercial.

“I haven’t gotten a word in, she’s been talking for three minutes,” Griffin said.

After returning from a commercial break, Goldberg pointed out that the “beauty” of their show was that they had different opinions.

“We lost the election. We’re miserable. Half of this country is miserable. And let’s just tell the truth: We hate that he won. We hate it. And everybody is uptight and crazy right now,” co-host Joy Behar chimed in.

Hostin made the claim that voucher programs don’t help kids do better in school and said, “That’s the truth.”

Griffin used other statistics and her own work on the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program while she was in Congress to make the case that tax dollars should go to the students if a parent wants to help their child catch up in a school area that might be falling behind.

“It’s simply that a parent should be able to make the best choice for their student. I also think that there are schools that are falling behind. It doesn’t mean they don’t deserve education, but I don’t think students should be victims of a falling-behind school. Their life is at stake, their future, their earning potential,” Griffin said.

Hostin said that she didn’t go to a good school district in the South Bronx and said, “That’s the inequity.”

Griffin pointed out again, “Did you get to go to a private school?”

Goldberg threatened to shut the discussion down again before she made her argument.

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Earlier this week, Sunny Hostin deleted her X account following Trump’s presidential election win, saying she believed it was a “patriotic” act.

During an interview on the “Behind The Table” podcast, Hostin said she no longer wants to be associated with the social media website because it’s owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk.

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