CORE waiver is bad idea
The Fresno Unified CORE waiver hurts kids. Superintendent Michael Hanson characterizes the waiver as a plan to improve education, but in reality the waiver is a business model designed to privatize education, which ultimately harms Fresno Unified children.
The California Office to Reform Education waiver is a plan to turn Fresno Unified schools into for-profit charter schools that need to get quick returns on their business investments. For-profit schools view teachers as an expendable work force and students as widgets. Charters hire young, inexpensive and inexperienced teachers to work with the most disadvantaged population. The nature of for-profit charters is to work their novice teachers under grueling conditions until finally they get restless or spent and decide to leave. This hurts students two deplorable ways: The students lose a teacher with whom they have fostered a bond, and student learning suffers from the lack of continuity.
A business model approach is good for business, but not education. Business deals with products, such as calculators, and education deals with people -- humans with emotions, needs and diversity. The CORE waiver is organized with a business model at heart. Fresno's children and neighborhoods will suffer from the adoption of Superintendent Hanson's CORE waiver.
Karl Kaku
Fresno High School
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