Dumping Children – The immoral and unethical Charter School tactics to push students back to public schools
The undeniable truth is that while gobbling up massive amounts of scarce public funds, the vast majority of Charter Schools refuse to accept their fair share of students who need special education services and children who aren’t proficient in the English Language (So-called ELL students.)
And when “the unwanted” do get into Charter Schools, the companies running the schools use immoral and unethical tactics to push out students that don’t fit their corporate profile.
No real public school could ever engage in the abusive and unfair dumping practices that have become the norm in the Charter School Industry.
In Connecticut, a leading example of a push-out strategy was the one utilized by the Achievement First Inc. Charter School chain. (See The “Shocking Numbers Of Kindergarten, First Grade Suspensions” at Achievement First Schools.)
The depth to which Charter Schools will lower themselves became apparently last week with a New York Times expose on Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City where a “Got to Go” list was developed to targeted specific students for dismissal.
As the article revealed, students on the “Got to Go” list were routinely suspended until their parents withdrew them. The suspension rate for elementary students at Success Academy Charter Schools is seven times the rate of New York City’s public elementary schools and, like Achievement First, Inc. the charter school was targeting and abusing children as young as kindergarten.
New York’s Alliance for Quality Education has begun an on-line petition to focus Dumping Children – The immoral and unethical Charter School tactics to push students back to public schools - Wait What?:
