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Why Even the Best Charter Schools are Fundamentally Inequitable

17 Sep
Why Even the Best Charter Schools are Fundamentally Inequitable

There is a significant difference between REAL public schools and charter schools. If you think for yourself, learn what that difference is. If you think like a MAGA moron, don’t bother, because you do not know how to learn.

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Not MY charter school!

That’s the usual reaction from charter school fans to any criticism of the industry.

I say many of these institutions lack accountability about how tax dollars are spent…

Not MY charter school!

I say they waste millions of taxpayer dollars to duplicate services already in existence….

Not MY charter school!

I talk about frequent scandals where unscrupulous charter school operators use copious loopholes in state law to enrich themselves without providing services to parents, students and the community…

Not MY charter school!

I mention charter school lotteries, cherry-picking students, not providing adequate special education services, zero tolerance discipline policies, teaching to standardized tests, targeting black and brown kids for profit and feeding the school to prison pipeline….

Not MY charter school! Not MY charter school! Not MY…

Really!?

If the industry is subject to this much malfeasance and corruption, doesn’t that…

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