kootchman
You need to ask why they aren’t spending their time in the public school system. Pontificating about what they should and shouldn’t do is useless. It took forty years to drive us from the public schools.. but we left with our feet. You don’t cast pearls before swine. Now they want us back… uh huh… like that will happen. If PS spend half their time in the class, innovating, making it a challenge, adding exccitment ..and raising test scores. maybe they would return. You are required by state law to educate every child. Rich, poor, middle class, … since they can’t and haven’t … certainly not to our acceptable standards, we just want our share of the apportionment. No? Fine… we vote too.
See how many of those kids at Capital Prep were cherry picked… right out of public housing, the poorest zip code in the state, the highest violent crime statistics…. hell of a cherry pick. How do you think the West Seattle schools that are private pick? From a random selection of parish members.. ya think we give out aptitude tests to pre-K kids.. ha ha ha.. good one. Public schools teach a culture of mediocrity and entitlement. That won’t cut it.
They are “struggling” not because of the public, They bought this down upon themselves. Cherry pick? You didn’t watch the video I see. That was a charter school.. right from the heart of the worst and poorest district in the state.
Remember … it’s not public money until they collect it. That is getting harder and harder to do isn’t it? Watch this election.. charter schools is on the ballot again. IF SPS was smart.. they would run to endorse it. Just think Wisconsin. Those vouchers by the way also go the the very poorest to escape public schools.
If the very best and brightest want to leave the SPS and the only thing holding them back from achieving their aspirations is mobility.. why would you deny them?
If the public school parents spent their time in their schools.. there might be parity. why aren’t they? Because they are as isolated as the parents that can and did escape. We lift our end of the wagon…the graduates speak loudly for the choices we made.