Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them (Part 2) | Dissident Voice
Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them (Part 2)
In that article I highlighted some of the forms of confusion promoted by neoliberals, privatizers, and corporate school reformers to block people from concluding that nonprofit and for-profit charter schools are harmful and must be opposed.
The essence of these different forms of confusion typically takes the form of listing many damning and indicting problems with charter schools, while still managing to find a convoluted way to support them.
Here is the general formula:
- I know charter schools have 50 profound problems.
- I just spent hours researching and showing that charter schools have many problems.
- I know more people are rejecting charter schools and seeing them for what they really are.
- But I will stubbornly continue to support charter schools anyway and be comfortable with such a contradictory and incoherent position.
Refer to the 2018 article for more details and analysis.
In this article I address yet another form of confusion distorting consciousness and undermining public schools and the public interest. This form of disinformation is a slight, but significant, variation of an existing confusion. It goes something like this:
