No Such Thing as a Regulated, Public, or Good Charter School
There are many diversionary dichotomies within the unscrupulous web of charter school disinformation that have long distorted social consciousness and undermined the fight for social progress and high quality education for all. Some include the following:
- regulated verses unregulated charter schools
- for-profit verses nonprofit charter schools
- good verses bad charter schools
- high-performing verses low-performing charter schools
- mom-and-pop verses corporate charter schools
- school district-approved verses “totally autonomous” charter schools
- well-funded verses poorly-funded charter schools
- no-excuses verses regular charter schools
- urban verses suburban charter schools
- small verses large charter schools
- online verses brick-and-mortar charter schools
These and other misleading contrasts are designed to maximize confusion and abolish the consciousness and outlook that the core underlying issue with allcharter schools is their privatized, marketized, and corporatized character. All other considerations are generally secondary, superficial, diversionary, or false in comparison to this key issue.
The privatized, marketized, and corporatized character of all charter schools is the central issue regardless of the different forms of charter schools. Form and content are not the same. Appearance and essence are not identical. It is important to look past the diversity of charter schools and appreciate their internal state; i.e., what is common and central to all of them. This will provide a much deeper understanding of charter schools. Forms and appearances are often misleading and superficial.
The privatized, marketized, and corporatized character of all charter schools is the reason why all charter schools have nothing to do with public right and instead embrace the outmoded ideologies and practices of the “free market,” private property, consumerism, competition, and possessive individualism.
The privatized, marketized, corporatized character of nonprofit and for-profit charter schools is also the reason why more than 95% of charter schools have never been started, owned, operated, or controlled by teachers since their CONTINUE READING: No Such Thing as a Regulated, Public, or Good Charter School | Dissident Voice
