Shicago Teachers Union boss Stacy Davis Gates went on CNN to talk about school choice.

Little did she know that the host, Abby Philip, wasn't going to give her the softball segment

that she expected from CNN.

Woo! This is straight heat.

Tonight, the head of the Shicago Teachers Union is facing intense backlash after it was

revealed that her eldest son is enrolled in a private Catholic school.

Now, the reason that this is at all controversial for some people is because Stacy Davis Gates

has championed the city's public school system while consistently voicing strong opposition

to private education. Now, last year, she underscored her position on the issue, saying,

I can't advocate on behalf of public education without it taking root in my own household.

And joining me now is Stacy Davis Gates. Stacy, thank you for being here. We wanted to

have you on, so you could help explain what happened here. You've likened in the past

private schools of today to quote segregation academies of the Jim Crow South.

Why then send your child to a private school after speaking out so publicly against them?

I didn't speak out against private schools. I spoke out against school choice.

School choice and private schools are two different entities.

In your tweet, you describe, basically, private, I mean, you've described private schools of the

north. That's, that was literally your language. But you've also said this, that school choice was

the choice of racists. I think at the end of the day, people are asking here about whether

the rhetoric matches your actions. What do you say to them?

Well, I would say that if we understand the desegregation of schools,

post-brownvy, the Board of Education, we also understand that school districts in the

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