Post by Chris_Wendt on May 28, 2010 11:24:01 GMT -5
In order to take advantage of the federal bribe of perhaps $700 Million, the NY State Legislature has tentatively reached agreement to increase the number of Charter Public Schools to 640.
I think this is a travesty.
Sure, charter schools can do a better job educating some small number of students in special settings. But what does that do for the overall mission and responsibility of NY State to educate ALL children?
With additional charter schools opening near "failing" public schools, siphoning funding away from those same failing schools but serving only a small fraction of the student population, the net effect is not positive for the greater majority of the kids 'left behind' in the failing public schools, now operating with even less money than they had before.
What is the State going to say to the kids left behind, to their parents...
...about why those kids aren't in charter schools, too, and especially, why the public school those kids are stuck in is not providing the same level of service, the same small class size, the same up-to-date textbooks, and the same technology and the same OUTCOMES as the other kids experience in the new charter school down the street?
Outside of NY City, parents will also wonder why their taxes will go up to support the Charter School, yet their kids still languish in that failing public school.
I doubt Wantagh will see a dime of the $700 Million bribe money, providing NY State even wins that money.
Ticked.
Chris Wendt
I think this is a travesty.
Sure, charter schools can do a better job educating some small number of students in special settings. But what does that do for the overall mission and responsibility of NY State to educate ALL children?
With additional charter schools opening near "failing" public schools, siphoning funding away from those same failing schools but serving only a small fraction of the student population, the net effect is not positive for the greater majority of the kids 'left behind' in the failing public schools, now operating with even less money than they had before.
What is the State going to say to the kids left behind, to their parents...
...about why those kids aren't in charter schools, too, and especially, why the public school those kids are stuck in is not providing the same level of service, the same small class size, the same up-to-date textbooks, and the same technology and the same OUTCOMES as the other kids experience in the new charter school down the street?
Outside of NY City, parents will also wonder why their taxes will go up to support the Charter School, yet their kids still languish in that failing public school.
I doubt Wantagh will see a dime of the $700 Million bribe money, providing NY State even wins that money.
Ticked.
Chris Wendt