The only place systemic racism is unchallenged, the only place Democrats continue to support systemic racism, is in public education. And it is obvious, after decades of dramatically increasing investments in public education that throwing more money at public education is not the answer. Charter schools and school choice have clearly de…
The only place systemic racism is unchallenged, the only place Democrats continue to support systemic racism, is in public education. And it is obvious, after decades of dramatically increasing investments in public education that throwing more money at public education is not the answer. Charter schools and school choice have clearly demonstrated real student achievement, and education is the key to success. But Democrats take enormous teacher union contributions in return for shutting-down charter schools and opposing school choice. They don’t even want parents involved in public education, classifying them as domestic terrorists. Mayor Adams has embraced this by closing charter schools. Teacher union money is more important to Democrats than educating poor inner city children.
My problem with charter schools funded with public money is that the taxpayers have no say whatsoever in how they are run. At least with public schools, we can vote out the School Board if we don't like what's happening in school.
Another problem is that, currently, charter and private schools can be very selective in who they admit but public schools must take EVERY student that shows up, including those who are disruptive or have various problems. If charter schools had the same requirement, they wouldn't be as good as many of them are.
If we went to a voucher system for education, 1. how would there be accountability to those paying for it? and 2. what would happen to all the kids no schools wanted to take?
Scott - You are citing common misinformation about charter schools. First, all charter schools encourage parental (taxpayer) involvement. That is key to student success.
Second, all but three states require charter schools to accept all students through a lottery, and the three states that don’t require lotteries by law do it voluntarily anyway. Charter schools are public schools.
Private schools can be selective about the students they accept.
Disruptive students will not be coddled and allowed to interfere with other students’ education in charter schools. That’s how it should be. And yes, it’s one reason charter schools are more successful in educating children than regular public schools which have to accommodate disruptive behavior.
It’s a big reason why charter schools are successful and why the lists are so long across the country of parents wanting to get their children into charter schools.
As far as accountability to taxpayers, the Justice Department regards taxpayers who attend school board meetings to be “domestic terrorists” at the behest of the school boards association. Many boards don’t want taxpayer involvement.
And kids that no schools want to take would have to attend regular public schools, same as today.
If you believe the work of George Borjas, another area of systemic racism would be immigration. His evidence claims to show that 50% of black unemployment is due to immigration policy. But up until 2016 or so that was a largely bipartisan policy supported both by those who have compassion not balanced by pragmatism and by business leaders.
There are always unexpected consequences to any public policy. It is true that open borders affects the working class, so Dems need to be VERY careful when they claim that limiting immigration is a form of racism.
The only place systemic racism is unchallenged, the only place Democrats continue to support systemic racism, is in public education. And it is obvious, after decades of dramatically increasing investments in public education that throwing more money at public education is not the answer. Charter schools and school choice have clearly demonstrated real student achievement, and education is the key to success. But Democrats take enormous teacher union contributions in return for shutting-down charter schools and opposing school choice. They don’t even want parents involved in public education, classifying them as domestic terrorists. Mayor Adams has embraced this by closing charter schools. Teacher union money is more important to Democrats than educating poor inner city children.
My problem with charter schools funded with public money is that the taxpayers have no say whatsoever in how they are run. At least with public schools, we can vote out the School Board if we don't like what's happening in school.
Another problem is that, currently, charter and private schools can be very selective in who they admit but public schools must take EVERY student that shows up, including those who are disruptive or have various problems. If charter schools had the same requirement, they wouldn't be as good as many of them are.
If we went to a voucher system for education, 1. how would there be accountability to those paying for it? and 2. what would happen to all the kids no schools wanted to take?
Scott - You are citing common misinformation about charter schools. First, all charter schools encourage parental (taxpayer) involvement. That is key to student success.
Second, all but three states require charter schools to accept all students through a lottery, and the three states that don’t require lotteries by law do it voluntarily anyway. Charter schools are public schools.
Private schools can be selective about the students they accept.
Disruptive students will not be coddled and allowed to interfere with other students’ education in charter schools. That’s how it should be. And yes, it’s one reason charter schools are more successful in educating children than regular public schools which have to accommodate disruptive behavior.
It’s a big reason why charter schools are successful and why the lists are so long across the country of parents wanting to get their children into charter schools.
As far as accountability to taxpayers, the Justice Department regards taxpayers who attend school board meetings to be “domestic terrorists” at the behest of the school boards association. Many boards don’t want taxpayer involvement.
And kids that no schools want to take would have to attend regular public schools, same as today.
If you believe the work of George Borjas, another area of systemic racism would be immigration. His evidence claims to show that 50% of black unemployment is due to immigration policy. But up until 2016 or so that was a largely bipartisan policy supported both by those who have compassion not balanced by pragmatism and by business leaders.
There are always unexpected consequences to any public policy. It is true that open borders affects the working class, so Dems need to be VERY careful when they claim that limiting immigration is a form of racism.