Our Crazy Times
People love their schools--- it is true in every community, everywhere. They love them and they don't want them closed. Here are some charter school parents in Long Beach getting booted from a school board meeting for conducting a mic-check. Evidently it's a case of low enrollment but it's very hard to tell what the truth is from afar, as you can see. I've been to a number of these meetings where the school is being closed for one reason or another, and the community is up in arms. It's always a traditional school, though. Usually the charter parents are on the other side of the argument.
The national policy on public education is to set people against each other by closing schools, firing teachers, and making people feel generally sick with anxiety about one school "underperforming" another school. It's absurd, and what it is leading to is chaos and instability, self-segregation, and an unsustainable choice-for-the-sake-of-choice craziness. Mind you, I don't think these kids should lose their school--- but this cold-heartedopen-then-close-'em environment is what the charter movement is based on and it is exactly what our national policy promotes.
It's pretty much how the elite have gotten the rest of us mad at each other while they offshore the wealth of the
The national policy on public education is to set people against each other by closing schools, firing teachers, and making people feel generally sick with anxiety about one school "underperforming" another school. It's absurd, and what it is leading to is chaos and instability, self-segregation, and an unsustainable choice-for-the-sake-of-choice craziness. Mind you, I don't think these kids should lose their school--- but this cold-heartedopen-then-close-'em environment is what the charter movement is based on and it is exactly what our national policy promotes.
It's pretty much how the elite have gotten the rest of us mad at each other while they offshore the wealth of the