[lbo-talk] Recipe for "privatizing" schools

[Wojtek S]

[WS:] But that is the whole point, no?  Schools do not "fix" children as,
say, mechanics fix cars.  It is children who do the learning, and schools
merely facilitate the process.  So if the peer pressure has detrimental
effect on leaning, kicking out "bad kids" will have a positive effect on
learning, no?

I do not understand why there is so much insistence in this country that
everyone must go to school that offers the same curriculum to everyone.

Wojtek

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, shrill.polemic <shrill.polemic at gmail.com>wrote:


> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For that reason, I am really "on the fence" on this issue.  On the one
> hand,
> > I think that the  one-size-fits-all philosophy behind public education
> > sucks, and charter schools do offer an antidote to it.  Otoh, I do
> support
> > teachers and thier unions, and I think charter schools would be very
> > detrimental to both.
> >
> > Wojtek
> >
>
>
> In Chicago, charter schools represent another successful effort by the
> Daley administration to privatize public resources and bust a strong
> union.
>
> On an optimistic note, 3 Chicago charter schools were recently
> organized although not by the Chicago Teachers Union -
>
>
> http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/district-299/2009/10/catastrophe-or-opportunity-chicagos-first-unionized-charter-school-contract.html
>
> The claims that charter schools offer a better education is
> questionable to say the least.  In Illinois, the easiest way to boost
> test scores at a charter school is to simply kick out the kids that
> aren't testing well.
>
> shrill
>
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