


Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin have not been seeing eye to eye lately. Tensions between them reached a boiling point on this morning’s episode of The View when Hostin condescendingly reminded Griffin that she’s the one who actually has children in a heated debate about president-elect Donald Trump‘s education plan.
When it came time for Hostin to speak, she aired her grievances with “school choice” and the “voucher system,” which allows parents to choose their child’s school that may not be the district they are assigned to based on their address.
“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,” she began.
Hostin noted that “$15.5 billion from the Department of Education is used to cover the cost of children with disabilities, children that have dyslexia, children that have other learning needs, that learn differently.”
However, she argued that vouchers “fund students who are 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,” she added. “Where do you get the money for vouchers? You pull [that] money from those poor schools.”
When Griffin attempted to chime in with her thoughts, Hostin quickly shut her down.
“Let me just finish this. Wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school voucher tax credits. I’m not making this up. This has been studied,” she said, while Griffin asked her to cite her sources.
According to Hostin, a 2020 study “found that only half of states with voucher programs require teachers to have a bachelor’s degree, require teachers to have training, [and] require teachers to have licensing.”
She would have kept going with her list, except Griffin interrupted again, saying, “So, that’s just not my experience. If I may get in just to make it a conversation.”

Hostin then looked at her childless co-host and replied, “Wait, because I have children and because I looked at private schools.”
However, Griffin wasn’t having it. “I went to public school. I believe you got to go to private school,” she reminded Hostin. “You got to go to private school and you talk about how education helps you get ahead.”
It was at that point that Whoopi Goldberg intervened — and when Griffin attempted to continue the conversation, Goldberg fired back, “We’re gonna come back. Because you can’t — what’s happening is no one can hear anything anyone is saying.”
Frustrated, Griffin complained, “I haven’t gotten a word in, she’s been talking for three minutes,” before they finally cut for the commercial break.
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.