tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post130014010847704205..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Choice: Real Problems, Fake AnswersPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-21605766001416775562015-05-02T08:43:32.227-04:002015-05-02T08:43:32.227-04:00Don't forget that their "solution" u...Don't forget that their "solution" usually includes touting the "no excuses" brand of charters that are utterly unscalable for all the students they claim to want to save. Moskowitz, Uncommon, KIPP -- they ALL rely upon having fully public district schools to which they can send their detritus -- the kids who cannot "cut it" in their hyper-regimented test prep uber alles environment. If they advocated simultaneously launching a Marshall Plan for urban education while admitting their approach has a strict upper bound on how children it can accommodate, they'd at least be honest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-62229188008998002642015-05-02T06:43:03.882-04:002015-05-02T06:43:03.882-04:00Why does no one ever point out that it is the cult...Why does no one ever point out that it is the culture of the neighborhood that makes the local school bad. Even when it is funded decently, which is rare but does happen occasionally, the prevailing culture limits education. Vouchers just offer those those families that are not part of prevailing culture a way to escape the failing culture.<br />I teach in a large urban/suburban district. If the parents are willing to transport, their children can leave the local school. Every year I have a few students that drive 30 - 40 miles to come to my suburban middle class school to escape the conditions at their local school.In the same county, same funding, except the "bad" school has more technology and equipment because it receives additional Title 1 funds that my school doesn't. But, because of the prevailing culture, we have less violence, high scores, and real student achievement. History Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03528484603773180804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-3554274722649647162015-05-02T00:28:16.613-04:002015-05-02T00:28:16.613-04:00My hypothesis is Bradford's cavalier attitude ...My hypothesis is Bradford's cavalier attitude is tied to that most American of myths - we are a meritocracy. Like Barack Obama and Deval Patrick (until recently Governor of Massachusetts), Derrell Bradford attended private schools, not public, and hasn't any first hand experience of those schools. But he's been told that they're bad, and that Strivers like himself are exceptional, who deserve something better. So he's all aboard to provide the other exceptional Strivers his own experience,too.<br /><br />The mistake the rest of us make is we want to provide schools for everybody -"the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free", but they are just not all deserving enough. <br /><br />BTW, I noted that he's a Dartmouth grad - another of Karen Lewis' classmates on the wrong side of this fight.laMissyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00516322307725011313noreply@blogger.com