Posted on 10/19/2010 9:15:18 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Stung by a spate of recent documentaries on public schools, the education establishment is trying to rebut the filmmakers’ charges. “Nowhere does the film offer evidence that attending a charter school actually will raise the achievement levels of students highlighted in the movie,” National Education Association president John Wilson said after an advance viewing of Waiting for “Superman.” “Is it possible these students were getting a good education in the public schools they attended?”
Wilson made his comments to writer Del Stover in an article which appeared in American School. American School is published by the National School Boards Association (NSBA).
Accuracy in Media’s Allie Duzett reviewed “Superman,” which was produced by the same auteur who gave us “An Inconvenient Truth.” Perhaps as a result of director Davis Guggenheim’s progressive pedigree, more establishment audiences may have actually seen “Superman” than have viewed previous exposes of public schools, although he has done an earlier expose of government education.
At a recent standing-room-only meeting at the Center for American Progress (CAP), President Obama’s favorite think tank, Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond got instant recognition when she said, “I’m sure all of us have seen Waiting for ‘Superman.’” The CAP audience included executives from the Washington, D. C. public school system.
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Public schools can refute their record all they want, I will continue to homeschool. Screw them the have proven how poor they do their jobs.
It doesn’t matter if there is a “Charter” in front of the name. They may get better facilities and funding than other types of schools but the problems are the same.
In the case of most inner city elementary schools (where education matters most)the troublesome students waste at least 50% of class time. The result is that everyone, even the talented students, are waaaaay behind grade level when they hit 5th grade. That’s not even taking into account the emotional/psychological problems they develop from the constant noise, anger, and stress. It’s bad enough at home and they get more of it at school.
There are some Charter schools which attempt to remedy the problem by turning into an ultra strict boarding school. This helps but not enough. There is still that one kid whose parents are 20 year old felons who couldn’t care less how their child behaves in school.
If you can’t afford to home-school or hire a private tutor, don’t ever have children! Simple as that.
The children of the Democrats are either killed before they are born or tormented nonstop every day of their lives (at home and at school) until they become psychopathic leftist criminals. They are lost forever by the late teens.
The problem with American education is the same as the problem with Soviet agriculture. It’s a supplier run monopoly demanding ever greater resources and providing ever fewer and shoddier products, responding to political pressures rather than market forces.
The irony is that in a free market system good teachers would be better compensated and enjoy their work much more. (Would you rather be a farm hand in the Soviet Ukraine or California?) There would be far fewer teachers and far, far fewer administrators, but those who remained would undoubtedly accomplish a lot more.
Just sayin’, ya know.
Single payer just doesn’t work.
Ahh...so refreshing when one utilizes the broad brush of generalization...
It's good to know that everyone who majors in any other subject can be depended upon to be infallible...
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