Yeah, a lot of the old fucking hippie types have been just like MAGAts in their rejection of modern health measures here, relying on crystals and herbal remidies and anything non-scentific.
They make sure their profit isn't affected by paying shit wages and spending next to nothing on training.
And it's taxpayer money, which, despite their rhetoric (big surprise), Republicans view as free money because it didn't come directly out of their pockets.
A charter school opened in my town, and the first thing the CEO of the company did was appoint all his relatives to the Board of Directors with salaries of $100,000/year.
This was a few years back, when a hundred k meant something.
Another symptom of our fucked up tax system. The funding follows the student to the school, but it's nowhere near enough to cover tuition. Low income students have chances at scholarships, middle class students are shit out of luck, and the wealthy, who were going to send their kids there anyway, get a taxpayer-funded discount on their tuition.
My grandfather was a cop in Youngstown, Ohio in the 60's. Every year at Christmas, my brother and I would go into town and spend the night at their house. He'd take us around the city at night to see all the home Christmas lights, noted during his patrols, which were new and still expensive, so only the well-off could afford them.
And there were well-off people in Youngstown, Ohio. The people who owned those steel mills were the ones with the lights, and they looked to be doing pretty well with a 90% tax rate.
A local charter school went under, and they noped out on everyone's final paycheck. The faculty and staff just stripped the place, carting off everything of value, computers, audiovisual equipment, furniture.
I went to a public "program" that is kind of like a charter school except that it is owned and funded by the local school board, gets the same budget per student as regular public schools, and can't kick out students who are more expensive to educate.
I liked that school. If "charter schools" were more like my school, I would like charter schools. But they're not.
I'm a progressive Liberal Democrat and a charter school teacher. There are more of us than you think. At the charter I work for here in California, we are a non-profit and take a disproportionate number of special education students. In fact, almost 1/3 of our population has an IEP/504 plan in place. We also provide lunches, snacks and have on-site social workers and mental health clinicians. We get a lot of students from the LGBTQ+ population who were bullied or mistreated by staff in the traditional setting.
I've also taught in the traditional school setting as well. I prefer the charter setting, by far! We have the flexibility to meet our students where they're at, rather than conform to a rigid standard set up when the US public education system's primary job was to churn out compliant factory workers.
My charter organization works with our local school district, not against it. Additionally, the organization also pays us very well with regard to salary and benefits.
State law in California prevents any charter operating within the state from being "for profit". All charters have to be non-profit. I follow charter schools in California very closely and NONE have taken over public schools.
My kid went to a public HS in MA with a great reputation, as being one of the best in the state. Many of the teachers there had masters or PhDs, in addition to the certificates and degrees for education. Here's what they didn't do well:* sex ed* understand that a NE school would have 4 seasons instead of 2 (it was modeled after a CA HS). 3 minutes was not enough time for a kid to get from one corner to another because everything was spread out but the corridors and hallways were not. Also, not enough parking spaces.
* providing enough space/time/opportunity for everyone to either get outside or get to do yoga or meditation instead of study hall, as well as fun gym classes that did not always involve ropes, nets, or balls* understand and help kids on the autistic spectrum to do well in academics, even if (and especially if) those kids were bright; some real understanding and practice of executive function skills and social skills would have been great for those kids.
* provide reading material in literature and history classes that balanced out all of the "life is nasty, brutish, and short" texts*teaching the secrets to managing money and staying out of debt*teaching the secrets to getting into great colleges and summer jobs (secrets that the monied and well connected parents knew, which would have only been about 15-20% of the families in that school)*feed 500 students per lunch period (there were four lunch times altogether) a real lunch in just 20 minutes total. Also provide enough seating in all seasons for said 20 minute lunch* pay the teaching aids a living wage
Nowhere like the majority of electric and gas companies in New York state (outside of the NYC area) which are owned by a company in SPAIN!
Yeah, a lot of the old fucking hippie types have been just like MAGAts in their rejection of modern health measures here, relying on crystals and herbal remidies and anything non-scentific.
At least they had ONE professor there. Most sharter schools barely have any real teachers.
I'm suprised the reich-wing owners and heads* of Disney haven't gotten rid of it already.
*true fact
They make sure their profit isn't affected by paying shit wages and spending next to nothing on training.
And it's taxpayer money, which, despite their rhetoric (big surprise), Republicans view as free money because it didn't come directly out of their pockets.
A charter school opened in my town, and the first thing the CEO of the company did was appoint all his relatives to the Board of Directors with salaries of $100,000/year.
This was a few years back, when a hundred k meant something.
Another symptom of our fucked up tax system. The funding follows the student to the school, but it's nowhere near enough to cover tuition. Low income students have chances at scholarships, middle class students are shit out of luck, and the wealthy, who were going to send their kids there anyway, get a taxpayer-funded discount on their tuition.
My grandfather was a cop in Youngstown, Ohio in the 60's. Every year at Christmas, my brother and I would go into town and spend the night at their house. He'd take us around the city at night to see all the home Christmas lights, noted during his patrols, which were new and still expensive, so only the well-off could afford them.
And there were well-off people in Youngstown, Ohio. The people who owned those steel mills were the ones with the lights, and they looked to be doing pretty well with a 90% tax rate.
A local charter school went under, and they noped out on everyone's final paycheck. The faculty and staff just stripped the place, carting off everything of value, computers, audiovisual equipment, furniture.
I went to a public "program" that is kind of like a charter school except that it is owned and funded by the local school board, gets the same budget per student as regular public schools, and can't kick out students who are more expensive to educate.
I liked that school. If "charter schools" were more like my school, I would like charter schools. But they're not.
I am geofenced out of The Daily Show videos, sadly.
Hunh. I wasn't expecting the Spanish Infrastructure.
I'm a progressive Liberal Democrat and a charter school teacher. There are more of us than you think. At the charter I work for here in California, we are a non-profit and take a disproportionate number of special education students. In fact, almost 1/3 of our population has an IEP/504 plan in place. We also provide lunches, snacks and have on-site social workers and mental health clinicians. We get a lot of students from the LGBTQ+ population who were bullied or mistreated by staff in the traditional setting.
I've also taught in the traditional school setting as well. I prefer the charter setting, by far! We have the flexibility to meet our students where they're at, rather than conform to a rigid standard set up when the US public education system's primary job was to churn out compliant factory workers.
My charter organization works with our local school district, not against it. Additionally, the organization also pays us very well with regard to salary and benefits.
The charter school I work at here in California is actually predominantly Hispanic/Latino. Most of them are, in fact.
State law in California prevents any charter operating within the state from being "for profit". All charters have to be non-profit. I follow charter schools in California very closely and NONE have taken over public schools.
Reposting this:
My kid went to a public HS in MA with a great reputation, as being one of the best in the state. Many of the teachers there had masters or PhDs, in addition to the certificates and degrees for education. Here's what they didn't do well:* sex ed* understand that a NE school would have 4 seasons instead of 2 (it was modeled after a CA HS). 3 minutes was not enough time for a kid to get from one corner to another because everything was spread out but the corridors and hallways were not. Also, not enough parking spaces.
* providing enough space/time/opportunity for everyone to either get outside or get to do yoga or meditation instead of study hall, as well as fun gym classes that did not always involve ropes, nets, or balls* understand and help kids on the autistic spectrum to do well in academics, even if (and especially if) those kids were bright; some real understanding and practice of executive function skills and social skills would have been great for those kids.
* provide reading material in literature and history classes that balanced out all of the "life is nasty, brutish, and short" texts*teaching the secrets to managing money and staying out of debt*teaching the secrets to getting into great colleges and summer jobs (secrets that the monied and well connected parents knew, which would have only been about 15-20% of the families in that school)*feed 500 students per lunch period (there were four lunch times altogether) a real lunch in just 20 minutes total. Also provide enough seating in all seasons for said 20 minute lunch* pay the teaching aids a living wage