tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post8588071937563539041..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Norm in The Wave: The Fallacies of School Choice Marketing Campaign, Part 1ed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-35193822630864073842016-12-18T21:04:15.453-05:002016-12-18T21:04:15.453-05:00Well, you pretty much articulated a lot of what I ...Well, you pretty much articulated a lot of what I would say in a much better manner than I could. You wrote my column for next week. I will include your comment with some more depth. The shift of public funding from public schools and into private hands to be used as they wish -- not to say public funds are misused but people can be held accountable. What happens is that by offering people a chance to get out of public schools -- let's face it -- there are difficult kids these private entities don't want - we end up in the long run with either no public school system or a sliver only serving the kids no one wants. I know wealthy parents or middle class parents who send their kids to schools in the belief in public schools as an institution. Now don't get me wrong -- they can often work the system in ways that poor people can't -- but if you look at many schools doing very well now with mixed populations -- some people were the early edge of gentrification and schools turned around through diversity. Charters - especially the avaricious chains like Eva Moskowitz' have the intent - no matter what they say -- to skim off all the top performing kids they can and one reason she wants entry into public school buildings is to eventually be the only school in the building and therefore in defacto control of the real estate. One day her chain offers to take these buildings off the hands of the city -- and complicit and bought politicians rubber stamp this. Then we see condo city using what used to be public-owned space. That is the long run. While you may see the idea of "choice" now ultimately you have less choice as charter and voucher schools pick and choose. And if your kid doesn't make the cut of the school you want then you find you are in the woods - especially if your neighborhood public school no longer exists.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-154316584670956722016-12-18T20:44:10.253-05:002016-12-18T20:44:10.253-05:00Thank you for taking the time to articulate your v...Thank you for taking the time to articulate your views on school choice. I look forward to learning how you would propose improving the public school system in the U.S. One thing I discovered in this election year as that too many people are talking at each other. Too few are talking to each other and actually listening. I imagine that when everything is said and done we probably agree a lot on the goals of education, we just disagree on how to get to that point. Hopefully this dialogue will lead to better understanding and help find a path towards common ground. <br /><br /><br />Please tell me if I understand your objections to vouchers and charter schools. You believe:<br />Public education is corner stone for creating a common American culture and any difussion would weaken our Republic.<br />Charters and vouchers take precious money away from the traditional schools thus creating more disfunction.<br />Public finding of religious schools violate the "No Establishment Clause" in the U.S. Constitution and the probition of public money being used in private religious schools in the New York State Constitution.<br />For profit schools are fundamently skewed to favor the corporation over the students and the students will suffer. <br />Is my summation correct, am I missing anything?<br /><br />Thanks<br />David<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com