kootchman
would you feel “privileged” having your kid attend Roosevelt? You would feel trapped and discriminated against. And, you would be right. Public benefit is exactly what we are NOT getting. Unless you consider sub standard teachers, over bloated administration, and tenured, horrid teachers with any eye on the clock and the summer vacation calendar the metrics of how to measure school performance,
See Capital Prep… every pathology that leads to non=performance is there… and yet.. 100% graduate.. and 100% attend four year schools. They were not hand picked national merit scholars… they came from the worst slice of the socio-economic pie… even those years behind in reading comprehension are brought up to international standards. That’s what charter schools can do. Sadly, charter schools take time to organize, staff, etc.. so the urgency of the problem is years away in the resolution. If ever… those teacher unions are going to fight it tooth and nail. Vouchers would help divert some from the moribund to the successful… at no additional cost to the taxpayer. Or don’t do it… and the achievement gap will grow ever wider.
You can’t educate kids that are asleep with boredom, lead by uninspired tenure drones. The very point of the outrage is they are not delivering on the creating opportunity scale. It can be done… but it requires change, we know that government only changes when loss of funds or program cuts are on the table. Only then do the search madly for relevance.