pjMom
backyardconservative
Carol
fuzislippers
iainswife
Obi's Sister
nicedeb
Pat Austin
Jill
Quite Rightly
retrieverheart
Sherry
just a conservative girl
Zilla of the Resistance
The Tide is Turning on School Choice
During my career, I met with thousands of parents. I have never met a parent who did not want for his or her child what I wanted for my own sons and now my grandchildren, a quality public school education. In fact, I have met far too many parents in neighborhoods with failing schools who lacked the financial resources for private school, the political connections for magnet schools, or the luck of winning the lottery for a charter school. (Philadelphia has more than 30,000 children on charter-school waiting lists.) Providing these captive parents with broad school-choice options is the only chance to improve public schools as a whole. Expanding charter schools and passing school-voucher legislation, as being voted on right now in Harrisburg, will end the public school monopoly that has failed low-income neighborhoods. Allowing parents to vote with their feet and letting some education funding to follow children to new schools is the drastic measure necessary for improving the public-education system. The more choices parents have, the better education their children will receive
This is part of an OP-ED written by Arlene Ackerman, former teacher, administrator, and chancellor of the public school system in Philadelphia.
SignPainterGuy, 
just a conservative girl, and 
A.Men are discussing. 
SignPainterGuy 8:51 PM on 05/11/2012 Permalink |
It`s so nice to have a credentialed professional echo our sentiments !
just a conservative girl 10:09 PM on 05/11/2012 Permalink |
yeah, she took a great deal of crap for it to. She was called a traitor among other choice things. But she knows of what she speaks. She has been there. She knows the system won’t change until they are forced to. The system is no longer child centered. Until that changes the schools will continue to fail. She said that even if they made major improvements immediately, they won’t trickle down to the kids until 2023. That is an outrage. How many kids will be lost to gangs, jail, and poverty between now and then?
SignPainterGuy 12:06 AM on 05/12/2012 Permalink |
2013 ? Unions are exceedingly sssllloooooowww ! Get the unions out, implement a child-centered plan, return prayer and maybe even some judicious spanking (for certain real discipline), involve the parents, place control to local districts and get the gooberment out, test the teachers and make them prove their worth …… you`ll see significant positive change the first year. I`m sure I left out some things that need to change or return to the old days, but you get my points !?
just a conservative girl 8:03 PM on 05/12/2012 Permalink |
Not 2013, 2023. 11 years away. That is yet another entire generation of our kids lost to a failing school system. Not acceptable.
SignPainterGuy 11:29 PM on 05/12/2012 Permalink |
Sorry, typo, it was late. I was thinking right, my jabber fingers weren`t cooperating.
A.Men 4:37 AM on 05/12/2012 Permalink |
School choice. Freedom. President-In-Name-Only had school choice. And he had the choice to go to Ivy League school after being in a “daze the last two years of high school” from using “weed’ and “blow”.
SignPainterGuy 11:52 AM on 05/12/2012 Permalink |
Don`t forget, “Beer” !