Comments on: Step Right Up: Build or buy a charter school, get a Green Card… http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/12/step-right-up-build-or-buy-a-charter-school-get-a-green-card/ Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics Fri, 24 May 2013 04:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: THE TRUTH http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/12/step-right-up-build-or-buy-a-charter-school-get-a-green-card/#comment-7175 THE TRUTH Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:51:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3088#comment-7175 Not a fan of charter schools! So what are the solutions? I know there are problems, but can this blog talk about solutions instead of bogus comments by angry educators/people. Were children receiving a great education prior to our so called reform? Should we stop the reform and go back to a system that was not working? What is the answer? I see a lot of problems but no one is offering solutions. And I don’t want to go back to schools being utter failures like they were. Isn’t this the reason we have reform? Dropout rates, kids not reading, kids failing. And no I am not a fan of charter schools. But something needs to change. Here are my solutions. Instead of attacking I choose to find solutions
1) Create a regionalize system where suburban students go to school with poor students. Maybe some people don’t want their kids going to school with poor kids of color.
2) Magnet schools are grossly overfunded and have created a Jim Crow mentality where the train tracks divide the economically advantaged and the poor. Why not address this?
3) Help schools by volunteering to teach our students to read. Lets create a system where kids are taught to teach by individuals that talk crap about reform and have never set foot in an inner city school.
4) Walk the neighborhood of a poor community school deemed as a failure. You might learn something and if you really want to help try spending time with kids that need role models and volunteer at the school. Wait, will unions fight about this? Maybe!
5) Demand that schools that have high special education kids (magnet schools won’t accept these students) and high ELL students receive more funding than grossly overfunded magnet schools. Instead of fighting about testing, lets fight about why magnet schools don’t have Special Education kids and how they don’t educate all kids?
6) Know that reforms are created because our poor communities were not being educated and we cannot afford to have teachers and administrators make money off of the very kids they fail to educate.
7) Charter School, as awful as they are, were created to address all the issues that have not been solved. Lets not allow them to function! Can we create great public schools?
8) Admit that some people do not belong in education (including school reformers and people bashing school reform)
9) Lets focus on kids first!
10) Send your child to a so called failing school so you can change the very problem you are fighting for. Then other parents will have respect for people that advocate for the poor. Parents are confused that the very people fighting for reform or no reform are people that have a vested financial interest in their school.

]]> By: anniemil http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/12/step-right-up-build-or-buy-a-charter-school-get-a-green-card/#comment-7149 anniemil Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:54:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3088#comment-7149 Wonder if this was part of Dannel’s agenda during his recent trip to China? More $ for his CT charter initiative?

]]> By: Linda174 http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/12/step-right-up-build-or-buy-a-charter-school-get-a-green-card/#comment-7109 Linda174 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:04:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3088#comment-7109 If a charter receives private donations and support from wealthy philanthropimps, their government tax money should be reduced and sent to the neighboring public schools. When students exit or it is determined they are “not a good fit”, the money should follow the students back to their schools. Why do they keep the per pupil expenditure if they no longer have the pupil?

Giving out these green cards willy nilly seems like a national security issue…I wonder if Joel Klein and Condoleeza are concerned or does that not fit their teacher bashing agenda?

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