and all of those parents who line up tend to fall into groups who either believe the lies and fear mongering they are fed constantly, are fleeing the schools filled with “bad kids” so their child doesn’t have to deal with it, or have a personal beef with how their public school handled some problem.

They should instead simply go home, and dedicate themselves to supporting the only reform we need: more money shoveled into the existing establishment.

Indeed, this whole choice thing is a scam. It’s okay for every other aspect of American life, of course, but not for schools — parents should just accept being given one option and having no voice.

After all, American public schools are excellent. And highly paid union bosses, not uninformed parents, should decide whether public schools need competition.

Charter schools are no better then public schools, in fact 1/3 of them are worse.

so why do we keep haling this experiment as a success? and the solution to all of our problems?

even the charter schools that work best do so because they have programs that address the challenges of poverty outside of the classroom, like harlem’s children Zone.

and their success is because they deal with poverty, not because they are a charter.

the reality here is it is easier to focus blame on education and teachers and unions, so you can convince the public that they are the problem and push them to ineffective charter schools that cost less.

the bottom line is that no one wants to spend the money or the time to truly address our major poverty issue so they pull a sleight of hand trick and turn everyone’s attention to a problem that doesn’t exist.