For-profit charter schools not solution to education reform
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A recent article in the Herald had a source who advocated when a public school is failing it should immediately be turned into a charter school. As a retired educator and well aware of the charter movement, which is being financed by corporations for profit, this is another attempt to privatize public education for profit.
First and foremost, an attempt should be to analyze why a school is failing and what can be done to make it better. The usual causes for failure are under-funding, insufficient staffing, discipline problems, absenteeism, language barriers, disadvantaged families, lack of parental support and a lack of social and/or physical needs. These dysfunctional liabilities can be changed when proper support is provided.
These are societal problems that can only be remedied by our willingness to support the public educational system and not charter schools for profit, for which they are today. Every survey taken in