Defenders Of The Government Operated School Establishment - Rattling The Chains Against Charter Schools

NYC Charter School Endgame: The Manipulation of Black and Latino Communities Is One Step in a Larger Process of Privatizing Public Education

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If you don't agree with anything else that I write on my blogs - please put me on record for noting two things about the way things work:

• A 60 Vote Majority In The US Senate which caps control over the US House, the US Presidency AND Functional Control over ever district where the Black voter is 35%+ of the voting base does not stop certain operatives from blaming their political adversaries at the national level - the same way that they blame them for the local failures.  They don't look at the accountability that comes with their POWER, making sure that what they propose is reasonable and effective in the real world.  They merely look at the fact that those who oppose them are still breathing.
• The fact that Charter Schools (namely KIPP) have been able to enter into a space where certain children have been under-performing, implement policies that go against the grain of the norm and then render positive results that most thought could not be done.  IF you thought that the "Educational Actor-vists" would be happy with these results and use them as a core upon which to crystallize reform efforts - you'd be sadly mistaken. 

People this was never about academic excellence "by any means necessary".  This was always about POWER.  Those who have ascended into power by making promises about how the conditions of the schools would improve IF they were allowed to take control have no plans to relinquish their power to a nimble upstart.

Now that they feel threatened by an alternative distribution of PUBLIC education they are throwing up flack in the hopes of throwing off those of us who are watching the situation.

• The claim about the lack of diversity in Charter Schools - where some are all Black or Hispanic
• The claim that student's rights are being violated because class is being held in the lunchroom

Note the head fake.  The "Jonathan Kozol" type activist, upon seeing classes being held in the lunchroom would lean upon the school system and DEMAND that more favorable resources be distributed to address the clear needs.  He might go off to a "White suburban school" and make note of their new trailer that they have to address the overflow.

In this case, since the Charter School is the threat - the author of this particular article makes note of the lunchroom that has been turned into a classroom to accommodate the charter school classes that are held within the school and he strikes at the charter school itself.

Some figure that if they keep arguing that "charter schools are not really public schools" (which they are) that those who haven't been sufficiently brought up to speed on the point will indeed see this school choice movement as some type of grand scheme.  They will indeed be frightened by the chains and "howling sounds" that are coming from behind the curtain.

The most effective way to "shut down a charter school" is to make your "government, school system controlled school" more EFFECTIVE at instructing students.

Ironically the same people who demand smaller class sizes in the "government school" are opposed to having these smaller sizes by allowing those who choose to go exit to charter schools be the means by which these smaller class sizes are had in the government operated school.