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Friday, August 24, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Times Keeps Up It's Desperate Efforts to Look Logical

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Times Keeps Up It's Desperate Efforts to Look Logical:


Times Keeps Up It's Desperate Efforts to Look Logical

More inane arguments from the Times over charter schools.

They try to play the civil rights card and they might want to watch that because there are those in minority groups who do NOT follow that argument.

They also say it is "divisive" to talk about loss of funds to schools if we have charters.

That's misleading because (1) the charter system WILL cost more money to taxpayers and since we know we have NO new money, that comes out the system, (2) the charter supporters consistently try to make it sound like it's one student transferring from one school to another - it's not, it's a student transferring from an existing