educrat
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of educator + bureaucrat
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
educrat (plural educrats)
- (derogatory) An official or administrator in a school district or government body.
- 2020, Adriana LaGrange, Refusing to spend adequate money to protect Alberta kids during a pandemic:
- This is a great example of an educrat, getting in the way of what's right to push a failed political ideology.
- 2000, Laura Ingraham, The Hillary trap: looking for power in all the wrong places:
- It has everything to do with the educrat industry whose grip on our children Hillary is helping to maintain.
- 2002, Marsh Kaminsky, Onie:
- Many educrats make much of their income and build their reputations trying to fix the problems they themselves created with their dopey educational methodologies.
- 2003, G Gordon Liddy, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country:
- As a result of the misguided educrats, college students across the country now spend much of the first two years in remedial classes […]