Corporate Reformers: Truly Clueless
Bob Braun's interview with South Jersey Democratic boss George Norcross focuses on education. It is a trainwreck:
In his ideal world, the parents of children enrolled in charter and other privatized schools will be "mandatorily" engaged in helping those schools, he says, or their children will be asked to leave. "That’s exactly the way charters operate," he says.He concedes that, under such a scheme, most urban children, maybe as many as 60 percent, will be left behind in traditional schools — private, parochial and charter schools are not obliged to take or retain everyone — and those children are more likely to have problems and "less engaged" parents than those in privatized schools. Their needs will cost more per pupil."But we have an obligation to save children who are reaching out to us. You can’t keep the status quo simply because you don’t have an answer for what to do with
