Sunday, December 11, 2011

NYC Public School Parents: A Brooklyn parent reports on the WNYC/Schoolbook forum on "school choice"

NYC Public School Parents: A Brooklyn parent reports on the WNYC/Schoolbook forum on "school choice":

A Brooklyn parent reports on the WNYC/Schoolbook forum on "school choice"


See also NY Times/Schoolbook and GothamSchoolson this forum. Here is the account from a Brooklyn parent who wishes to remain anonymous:
Last night I attended the WNYC/Schoolbook forum on “school choice” which turned out to be mostly about promoting Schoolbook--no surprise. Jodi Rudoren of the Times kicked off the evening by telling us all to go on Schoolbook and add comments on our children's schools.
The Walcott conversation with Brian Lehrer was about what you'd expect. Some gentle probing, but they filtered out any slightly difficult questions by having the audience submit them on index cards or via Twitter. I didn't hear