Private charter School Crap

Private charter schools won a major victory in the latest budget battle.  Let's count their victories.

First: they won a $430 a year increase in funding  from the state.  So they will be receiving g $14,475 from our taxes.  Instead of this money going to help the public school,  we are sending  them to private schools that have no proven history of success.

But we need to remember - the whole goal of private charter schools is to make a profit.  There is no proof that they do any better than public schools.  I will dig into this a bit more later.

And spend that type of money on a public school that does what a private charter school does and people would be having a fit.

And charter schools are far from public s hoops no matter what the operators might say.  I work in a public school and we have to take every student that walks through the doors.  Private charter schools can turn people away.  Watch a public school do that and the corporate news media would be having g a hissing fit and a hay day all over the district in question.  

Second:  They were able to get language stripped from the budget bill that would have denied them the ability to hire  uncertified teaching g staff.  So the teachers in public schools have to meet a higher standard than private charter schools.  What would the corporate media say if they found out that there was an uncertified teacher or administrator holding a position in a public school?  They would raise high holy hell.  They did that to the Buffalo CSD about a person in the administration of a previous superintendent.  The person wound up leaving.

Now private charter schools can hire uncertified (and by default unqualified) people to teach students.  Is the Buffalo News or any of the Buffalo media raising Cain?  No.  We need to remember the bias of the corporate media - They are pro private charters.  So the privatized schools can do whatever they want and it's ok.

That's bull.

Third:  Private  charter schools bear back a challenge that required them to maintain a population of special education or "high need" students.  So a private charter school can skim off the crew of the public schools and leave behind low achieving students.  In a card game,  this is called "stacking the deck."  

You can also call it "loading  the dice."  

I call it cheating.

If private charter schools are so great then they should be mandated to take on the worst students in a district.   If the methods are so sound and great,  then they should want the students on the bottom because they would be able to help those students learn.  Not going to happen because that is not who the private education  corporations want.  They want only the top students.  So public schools are required to teach everybody.  Private schools  - only the ones that they cherry pick.

This artificially drives up the test scores of private schools and decreases the scores of public schools.  This is what public school critics use to argue that puts license schools are failing.

Again,  this is bull.

Socialists demand:

1. No public funding for private schools.
2. Any school that receives public funding (our taxes) must have a school board elected from the public at large.
3. Any school that receives public funding  must maintain a percentage of special needs students or forfeit funding.
4. If public schools need to hire certified educators,  then so do private charter schools.   One standard for all.

We need to fit against the use of public funding of private schools. 

Wisconsin does this via the use of vouchers.

NYS is just giving ght private schools the money outright.

This needs to stop.

Now.

Update:  I typed this up on my tablet yesterday & what a nghtmare.

Fixed on my laptop.