Yep, how’s that whole Kentucky, Oklahoma, West Virginia, etc. etc. school funding thingy working out for you, Boopsie?
Children, I’m going to tell you a little secret about Soylent Green.
Four words: Socialist, Scandinavian, Countries, Education.
In this country, income disparity and educational disparity are directly related. In the horrible European countries where people have health care and the schools are all funded the same and everything is horrible, the kids kick ass. Advanced Asian countries too. We’re mired in the middle of the pack internationally and the only reason we do even that well is because the affluent kids are getting world-class educations. The middle and poor kids not so much. Maybe we can fix this someday. But in the meantime, millions of kids are having their futures blighted and that you can’t fix once it happens. They never catch up. Early childhood education is that important. It’s the elephant in the room. Everyone who knows anything about education knows that much.
So charter schools have been around for the better part of 30 years in various states, but especially in the southern states with strong GOP majorities in state houses. So how, with all the promises of charters, with all the pubic dollars flowing into these charters, and flexibility afforded to charters, have the overall results of the southern states not gone up dramatically in the last 30 years?
Because siphoning off ever shrinking dollars per student between a new entity, charters, and an existing entity (public schools which have limited financial flexibility) is a recipe for stagnation at best and worsening education for the next generation of Americans at worst.
This Secretary has zero, I repeat zero credibility or background for the job she now holds. She, and her family, have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to change the school funding in Michigan with little effect, other than the issues I have mentioned above, all the expense of the next generation of Americans. Frankly, it is sad and disgusting what Betsy Devos stands for, and I hate to bag on any form of education as I am a fan of it. We need to properly fund our schools in a way that reflects America’s and Americans desire to ensure a prosperous future for all Americans in every nook and cranny of America. I could not be more proud of those students and teachers who fought yesterday, today and tomorrow to secure proper funding for education.
PS NCLB is a failure brought to you by the GOP, they should have to wear that badge for the next 30 years.
Just imagine, Ms. Devos, if you will, a fully funded Public Education System!
Tutored heiress lady says what?
Well the president does not read, so why should the kids?
you got that right
Hey kids, be a resentful failure and never learn anything and someday you too can be president - unless you’re a girl.
Dear Ms. DeVos; charter schools exist for one purpose only, to enrich those who invest in them. Thanks for playing, and we have some lovely parting gifts for you.
Geez! Are you trying to give the lady the vapors? That’s not the sort of thing brought up in polite, genteel, conservative conversation.
Private schools were started when there were no public ones and kept going after public because some parents thought their kids too good to associate with the general public. Then more were started when integration due to whit folks not wanting their kids to mingle with black, so basically the same reason as before. Charter schools are due mainly to some folks wanting to steal money from the public school funds and maybe a very few that think they have a better way to teach, but very few of the latter.