De Blasio’s choice

No longer pretending that he’s only against certain charter schools — you know, the ones with the best record of elevating student achievement — Mayor and NeverGonna-Be-President de Blasio has essentially just declared all-out war on the independently run, open-to-all public educational institutions.

Speaking to the nation’s largest teachers union Friday, de Blasio proclaimed that “too many Democrats have been cozy with the charter schools,” declaring himself “angry about the state of public education in America.”

His anger isn’t aimed at the man in the mirror, who spent $800 million in taxpayer money promising and miserably failing to deliver “fast and intense improvement” in struggling traditional public schools.

Rather, it’s aimed at “the privatizers” who succeed at the exact kind of transformation he proved incapable of pulling off. “I know we’re not supposed to be saying ‘hate’ — our teachers taught us not to — I hate the privatizers and I want to stop them.”

Let the record show that a man wealthy enough to afford to buy a home in Park Slope, who was therefore able to send his son and daughter to fine public elementary and middle schools and then onto selective public high schools, now wants to deny alternatives to poorer families whose neighborhoods are often plagued with underperforming schools.

Quality educational options for me, not for thee. We know we’re not supposed to be saying “hate,” but we hate supposedly progressive hypocrites.