Obama on Charter Schools

Obama speaks in Ohio

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Education

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[jackram2h2]

@DarthVengent Yeah buddy :D

[DarthVengent]

Obama is a hypocrite because he also supported teachers unions, which are AGAINST Charter Schools because Charter Schools don't give teachers tenure or other union benefits. That being said, go Illinois! Charter and privates schools ftw!

[Ceaserr65]

Obama knows as much about education as he does about running a government.

[CharterSchoolRadio]

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[amartinek01]

@thebestsumoeva For you school choice types; let's open up those selective programs in every neighborhood school to students from all across the district. There, now you have school choice and a level playing field for all schools where ALL student may enjoy ALL the protections of the law. If charters are so great, why does the movement seek to make them tort immune? If parents knew that, they would think twice; but that's never in the brochure. Your system only persists via bad policy.

[amartinek01]

@thebestsumoeva Now you're just annoying me. Please don't misinterpret my words or tell me what my model is. My ideal model provides for all those differences while retaining all the benefits of neighborhood schools. Every school should be a neighborhood school that provides selective opportunities for honors students as well as remedial opportunities for special needs, or at risk students. Only neighborhood schools with the support of the whole community can amass the requisite resources.

[thebestsumoeva]

@amartinek01 Your model tries and make all schools the exact same which in effect lowers everyone down to the lowest standards so everyone can pass. Would you argue Harvard/MIT/Yale are evil because they have higher standards than public schools? Every person is different , just because you try to generalize everyone into a zombie doesn't negate this fact. Would the NFL be as popular if they forced them to accept everyone into it?

[amartinek01]

@thebestsumoeva Your analysis is overly simplistic. However, if you must go there, let's make all the schools selective and boundary-free. However, you will have to require every charter school to meet the IEP needs of every special education student that applies. You'll have to provide transportation for students who live out of your neighborhood. Oh, and since all these selective schools have waiting lists, you can't expel anyone. That would violate their right to an education.

[amartinek01]

@thebestsumoeva NOT one under-performing charter has closed here. Only fiscally mismanaged ones close. There's a policy agenda against public education; so the school board looks the other way. Perhaps that's because charters aren't about children; they are about using our children as pawns in a profit scheme. The financing deals and tax incentives for these things are mind blowing and all at the expense of the tax payers and reduced resources for traditional public services.

[amartinek01]

@thebestsumoeva The should in light of what happened in Omaha. This would be less necessary if we all followed a true community school model; because there would be proper peer modelling for both students and parents.