He laid bare the sham of private charter schools:<\/p>\n
the way that the public\u00a0 education system is allowed to rot, defunded of even basic building repairs, while<\/p>\n
TAXPAYER money goes to fund privatized education.<\/p>\n
Which pays CEOS a great deal and pays teachers less than they receive in public ed, where they are of course often performing heroic duty in the face of grevious conditions caused by the systemic under-and-de funding, as more and more public funds are shunted to private charters.<\/p>\n
Remember mandatory art\/music classes? Remember phys ed? Remember public school buildings that weren’t mouldering around the students’ ears?<\/p>\n
A few kids are allowed to escape the sinking public ed ship into alleged charter heaven\/haven, while the rest are left to founder. (Not that charter schools necessarily provide better quality education.)<\/p>\n
Of course the charter-ites are freaking out over Oliver!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He laid bare the sham of private charter schools: the way that the public\u00a0 education system is allowed to rot, defunded of even basic building repairs, while TAXPAYER money goes to fund privatized education. Which pays CEOS a great deal … Continue reading