Charter schools are just one of the newest ways conservatives have come up with to control education so only those they believe deserve it get good ones while simultaneously allowing for more religious education in the classroom and a way to reimpose segregation in schooling
It also lets businesses profit off of kids’ education money while starving public schools of funding. Here in NY, charter schools take money from the public school fund. However, they are allowed to pick and choose which students they want and there is little to no oversight. So they reject any students with special needs (IEPs, 504 plans, etc) and take only students that they can teach for as little money as possible. Anything extra is profit for the business.
Public schools are left with a greater percentage of special needs students to help, but with less money to do it. Then, the charter schools point to the public schools as failing and push for more charter schools. More charter schools open and the public schools are left with less money. Repeat again and again as public funds are diverted to private businesses.
Don’t forget another way to funnel tax money to their friends!
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Im going to need some evidence that this place actually exists.
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Neither of your articles prove what you said about LGBTQ people, but no matter what this school shouldn’t exist.
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As someone on the left, the school presented by that article sounds like a laundry list of anti patterns that make schools ineffective education. Teachers should be leaders and partners in education, not arbitrary authorities punishing deviation from strict expectations. Kids should learn to respect people helping them to set and achieve their goals, not to fear authorities. Really, they should learn to question arbitrary exercises of authority.
They should learn how to think critically, solve problems, and work with their peers to do more than they could alone. Not just to test well.
Having a diverse set of teachers is neat, but doesn’t make up for the other claims.
Yes the extreme far left, well known for their love of Obama
Charter schools, by definition, are conservative. Regardless of what they actually teach.
Wasn’t that the entire point?
Yeah. The less educated the population, the more successful demagogues like the Texas GOP are in maintaining and consolidating their power.
After all, you can’t call out emotionally driven counterfactual narratives if you don’t know any of the facts and the demagogues themselves are making you feel all the emotions 🤷
