Lets get to the Article.
First off it appears in the Buffalo News owned by the Buffet Family- Uber Liberals to say the least.
Second Tapestry is an outstanding school I personally know the head of the Social Studies Department. Fortunately she is able to take the low pay because her husband has a very lucrative position.
Unfortunately the woman that they wanted to hire for a science teacher position couldn't afford the low pay.
South Buffalo, Elmwood Village and Buffalo United consistently ranked in the Top 10 among all Buffalo schools
While this sounds like a ringing endorsement it isn't. Lets compare those schools to other schools in Western New York.
As expected Wealthy suburban schools like Amherst and Williamsville, always score at or near the top. Cheektowaga, Depew, Maryvale, etc... score in the middle and ALL Buffalo schools score near the bottom.
The Actual numbers show that Tapestry does score high, while the magnet schools perform at the same level as the suburban schools. A couple of years ago the State University of New York closed Stepping Stone Charter School, and Sankofa Charter School was closed at the end of this school year.
Wintertime said "One of the best aspects of government charter schools is that, if they fail to educate, the state can and will shut them down.
The problem is that if you read the article, the State did not shut down Stepping stone. The article states that the university campus that it was located on shut it down.
Now an inquisitive person might ask why was this shut down? This school was located on the University campus. The idea was to use it as a training ground for students that would later go into PUBLIC EDUCATION There was a staff of several college professors (on a rotating business), Supervising Class room teachers and the majority of the teaching to be done by student teachers (on a rotating basis). There was very little if any consistency of teaching.
Now here comes the really dirty little secret. The university wanted to really jump start there numbers. They recruited from middle class suburban neighborhoods like getzville and upper middle class suburban neighborhoods like Amherst and put them in classrooms with urban children.
In less then five years the majority of the suburban parents pulled their kids out because they did not like the pace that the school was moving at, they did not like the lack of consistency, and they did not the idea of their children being part of a social experiment. The University students stopped "volunteering" and even with government reimbursement the tuition did not cover the salaries of the classroom teachers, and the additional teachers that they had to hire when their "volunteers' wouldn't.
And just so we are clear about this information, a close friend of mine's daughter was in the first class that they started. The University gave a great song and dance along with it's usual dog an pony show, to get them enrolled.
This was a liberal experiment in Social Engineering that failed miserably, the only reason that it lasted as long as it did was that there was no oversight.
Bring on the flames I have my Asbestos underwear on.
university campus that it was located on shut it down.
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Shut down is shut down! Good! I bet everyone lost their job too!
That’s what should happen to failing traditional, institutional government schools too, but rarely does.
Nevertheless, getting the government out of the business of education, is the best way to go.
There’s been a steady decline in literacy and academics for the last hundred years or so, since the implementation of the graded system as we now have it.
There’s nothing that the government can’t ruing once it gets its hands on it, including educating our children.
If the government could do such a great job, that doesn’t explain the test results and graduation rates of private and home schools.
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Wintertime