The primaries for the 2016 election approaches and we have heard all the positions that these people want to highlight…..they are pushing fear….they are pushing radical solutions to problems that may not need radical solutions….but the one thing that is far down the list of interest is that of education…..
The one solution that many seem attached to is that of charter school…….I am not a fan…I call it education by lotto……this is a “free market” solution that is anything but good for public education……I have been leery of this solution ever since it has come to the forefront and now I read of a bigger problem than even I had anticipated…….
“It’s just a long-forming bubble,” says the co-author of a new study.
Source: 3 Troubling Ways the Charter School Boom Is Like the Subprime Mortgage Crisis | Mother Jones
I do not understand the stupidity that drives the opponents of public education. What is more important than the education of our children and grandchildren? What could possibly more important?
Really! I would like to hear of this all important issue…..
You ask, “I do not understand the stupidity that drives the opponents of public education. What is more important than the education of our children and grandchildren? What could possibly more important? …”
I will tell you what is more important but before I tell you it is important to understand that when I am talking about those who oppose public education I am talking more or less about those folks who could use a little more education themselves — the hootin’ hollers with the one-toothed hound dogs, the arsenals of automatic weapons stored up against that thar “Gubmint Tyranny That’s A’Comin’ –” and a few other not-quite-neanderthals — so here is what is more important to them — and their ilk — than public education:
What’s more important to them is a privatized educational system where they can call the shots about who teaches whom and who teaches what in the classroom and an educational system that absolutely guarantees they can provide an education for their children that is as fraught with mis-information, intellectual invention and revision as the one they managed to achieve before they graduated the 5th grade and went on jury duty.
Privatized education will guarantee that the country will not get a good education…at least the wealthy will get it the rest of the country will be saddled with sub-prime teachers and classes
If these “people” do not like public education then jump on the “home schooling” bandwagon and they can teach their children the same ignorance that live under
I cannot understand the types you describe care so little for their children and the future…..too much reality TV? chuq.
I can’t explain the phenomenon — (Or the syndrome) at play here but let me give you an example of how it works:
When I told my Dad I was going to go to the Air Force to serve my country and to earn credits for my college tuition through the GI Bill, his response was, “So what’s the matter? Haven’t I always provided a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food in your belly? Isn’t what you’ve got good enough for you? It’s been good enough for me and it was good enough for my parents so why isn’t it good enough for you?”
Dad simply couldn’t understand that I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life in a ramshackle house that leaked and needed new shingles and an indoor bathroom and going out every day to work at a job that never ever paid more than $35 a week —I think there are lot of people in this country who think that their kids should stagnate right where they stand and carry on whatever tradition of ignorance or poverty they were raised in.
Like I said– I do not understand the mechanics of how that works but I am sure those who oppose public education must be thinking along those lines …. they simply are afraid to death of anything that changes … They like their comfort zones and they want their children to stagnate in the same comfort zones.
Than God my parents wanted more from me…..and the GI Bill was the best benefit I could have gotten from the military….chuq
I think I have to agree with you but I would add that the second best thing I got were my two Honorable Discharges.
Because of my work, I have a lot of involvement with charter schools. Not directly working for a charter school, but for a government agency that provides financing and grants for them. I view charter schools as an important part of the public education system (yes, they are public schools even though they are run by private organizations), but they are not the cure all for the problems that permeate public schools. I won’t go into the litany of those problems — there isn’t enough time in the day.
But, at the same time, the warnings about charter schools should be listened to as well. There’s a lot of potential for profiteering, corruption, and kids and their parents getting taken advantage of by bad operators. Of course, you could say that about some traditional public schools.
Privatization is all about the bottom line….I cannot see where that is good for education….so many of these bad operators walk away scott free and the children are left less educated than when they began….chuq
Carlin spoke on this numerous times, when he pointed out the corporate elite don’t want a populace capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, just smart enough to run the machines, and too ignorant to question why they do it at all….
He was right.
gigoid, the dubious
What can I say…..I was taught to think critically by my parents and to stand by my decisions…..I can do nothing else….chuq