“Charters and privates can provide child-centered, innovative
learning environments that the government prevents public schools from
embracing.”
The government has rules for public
schools that are different than those for charter and private schools. Then
everyone talks about how much better charter and private schools are. The
government is holding public schools back from succeeding. So, I don’t want my
tax money to support charter and private schools. Instead I want my money to
support public schools and make them better. It seems like the government is
setting up public schools to fail and then have the public blame the public-school
educators.
I think we need to start asking the
legislators questions such as why they are allowing this to happen? Why do we
allow charter and private schools to do the things that public schools should
be doing? If this was the case, maybe we wouldn’t even need charter and private
schools!
People say they like charter and
private schools because they are innovative and meet the student’s needs. That
is because they are not being restrained by all the regulations that public
schools are being strangled with. Public schools used to be innovative and meet
student’s needs so why not return to doing so?
If these regulations are so important,
why aren’t charter and private schools held to the same standards? Some people
say that this will keep them from succeeding. Isn’t that what we did to public
schools?
If the
government knows that charter and private schools are being successful with
innovative measures, why don’t they stop strangling public schools and allow
them the same flexibility? Why do they continue to insist on holding students
back and blaming it all on public school educators? Many in the public don’t
understand educational strategies like educators do and the only thing they
want are results. The public is being sold a bill of goods that stinks like
rotten cabbage. Students in public education can be highly successful if they
let educators go back to educating and politicians, who have no clue, move out
of the way.
I think it is time for the public to
stand up for public schools and insist that our tax money goes to making public
schools effective for everybody. We shouldn’t go back to the dark ages where
education is only available for the elite. Some people will say that is the
purpose of giving school vouchers so that everyone who wants to can attend
private schools. Isn’t that the purpose of public schools? Public schools are
available for everyone at no extra cost and that is the way it should be. If
people want to send their children to private schools for religious purposes,
we should not be mixing money between church and state.
How do you feel about the school
voucher system? Please share.
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